ah, glad I made you laugh Butch

'tis if you're a southern softie like wot I is. Bury = berry, not so far from bare-eee, hereabouts. 'S you folks from the dim distant parts an awful long way north of Watford who pronounce things funny.

Excuse me mate. I had electrocution lessons and can speak BBC English, if I want to....

Barium, Buryum St Edmonds, Blackberryum, barebumium. It's the bury bit that I don't hear. Well then again, hearing, not my strong point.

I think they say Barryum here.

Watch it - I'm from Bury!!! :

I remember the OP from when I joined up as I was living in Bangkok at the time. The Far East section of BE is like morgue - it gets like 2 posts a week or something (how he managed to get 4000+ hanging around there is something of a mystery)

My old man went to school in Bury. He is telling me that you would pronounce these all the same way. Suffolk men. pah

You would bury someone from Bury who ate berry pie in a barium pit.

Gotta love us folk from "up north" - Even though I now live in a place where the locals think us Brits all sound the same!!!!!

oo you mean bury in lancashire not bury st edmonds

Same Same with the Thais out here
as they say.

Indeed - Canadians pronounce words like "Mary, Merry and Marry" all as "Merry"

That was brought to you by BE's Department of Sweeping Generalisations.

Maybe you just can't hear the slight differentiation in pronunciation. I have to concentrate quite hard on the difference between cou and cul. They have very similar pronunciation but rather different meanings, to say the least.

Yeah yeah Souv just going with what i've found with Canadians i've met over 16 years..................and discussions with them about this very thing, they have actually brought it to my attention and laughed as I pronounce those 3 words differently..............ok?

I don't think I've ever heard a Canadian use the word "merry".

Oh well c'est la vie