MJ - Is it Bury or Berry?????
Jul. 8th, 2009 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellboyWhen in elementary school, my PE teacher was also an English teacher (this contradicts the old saying, "Those that can't do teach. And those that can't teach, teach PE?")
Anyway, his pet peeve, which came up often in class, was with the word Bury, and how most of the nation pronounced it.
"It is not pronounced Berry, as in strawberry. It is pronounced Bury (burrrr-rie)", he would say.
So as I watch the news about the many people that have passed, the word "Berry" is constantly used (which annoys me). And every time it is used I think of him and the word bury vs berry. Are going to bury (burrr-ie) him in the ground, or Berry him, in jam?
So who is correct?
Anyway, his pet peeve, which came up often in class, was with the word Bury, and how most of the nation pronounced it.
"It is not pronounced Berry, as in strawberry. It is pronounced Bury (burrrr-rie)", he would say.
So as I watch the news about the many people that have passed, the word "Berry" is constantly used (which annoys me). And every time it is used I think of him and the word bury vs berry. Are going to bury (burrr-ie) him in the ground, or Berry him, in jam?
So who is correct?
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Date: 2009-07-08 03:36 pm (UTC)There are all sorts of regional differences in pronunciation. People who INSIST that everyone on the planet adopt the linguistic "party line", well, see userpic.