Have I been saying this football team wrong all my life?

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TonyW

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• Aug 10, 2015

• #21

Juan Albion said:

Bury FC that is.

I've always pronounced it the same as "Berry" but I've just been watching the "accidental goal" incident on the Bury FC player and he clearly pronounces it Burry, to rhyme with flurry. Have I been wrong all these years or is it an ignorant commentator?

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The accent in some parts of Lancashire is quite strong, so people from Bury, Oldham, Rochdale etc. will often say Burry.
Having lived in Stockport for the last 14 years, I can tell you that the rest of the North West call them Berry.

Who's correct, who knows?

 

mickybha

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• #22

Juan Albion said:

Bury FC that is.

I've always pronounced it the same as "Berry" but I've just been watching the "accidental goal" incident on the Bury FC player and he clearly pronounces it Burry, to rhyme with flurry. Have I been wrong all these years or is it an ignorant commentator?

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I know just how you feel !! for me It was only on Match of the day at the week end that i realized after all these years its not actually pronounced Croyden scum apparently its pronounced crystal palace (krisstarl pal arse) oh well you live and learn

 

Gullflyinghigh

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I have to admit that I've never been quite sure of the 'correct' way to say Bury so I tend to just change it each time. Thus far, no-one's noticed or cared enough to say anything.

I do say Shrewsbury as Shroosebury now though, after chatting to a couple of the natives a while back...

 

studio150

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• Aug 10, 2015

• #24

I think the biggest change in names is Ajax, I recall Sportsnight with Coleman, the name always being pronounced as A-Jacks and then after a few years for some strange reason it changes to I-axe.

Anyway back up north, its Berry

 

Gullflyinghigh

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Have there been many footballers that have had a similar issue/change in pronunciation?

I can only think of Jermaine Jenas (Jen-us to Gee-nus) and Phil Jagielka (Jagielka to Yagielka), though I'm sure there have to be more.

I appreciate that the examples above might be the correct way of doing it but it's very noticeable when it first happens.

 

Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews

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Gullflyinghigh said:

I can only think of Jermaine Jenas (Jen-us to Gee-nus) and Phil Jagielka (Jagielka to Yagielka), though I'm sure there have to be more.

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My sister in law lived next door to the Jagielka's (Chorlton, Manchester) and babysat the boys as kids, the father used to pronounce his name, Yey-ghel-Kah, despite what they call him on MOTD I'm sure he knows his own name

 

Gazwag

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• Aug 10, 2015

• #27

How do people in Barth pronounce Baff

 

wallyback

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• Aug 10, 2015

• #28

James Alexander Gordon used to say "Berry".

That's good enough for me!

 

Notters

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Northerners in sounding different to us shocker.

 

fat old seagull

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Bosh...ham or Boz...ham ?

 

nwgull

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• Aug 10, 2015

• #31

TonyW said:

The accent in some parts of Lancashire is quite strong, so people from Bury, Oldham, Rochdale etc. will often say Burry.
Having lived in Stockport for the last 14 years, I can tell you that the rest of the North West call them Berry.

Who's correct, who knows?

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Concur with this (as another South Mancunian). Proper broad Lancastrians - someone with an accent like David Lloyd for example - say Burry; apart from that it's generally pronounced Berry, or possibly Berra.

 

Grombleton

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• #32

Parham.

Is it 'PAHRAM' or 'PARRAM'

 

Lord Bracknell

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GT49er said:

Really? I lived in Polegate for a few years, and never heard it pronounced anything other than 'Berrick'.

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What do people in Pollegatty know?

 

World of Sport

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Outside Sussex Arundel is pronounced A-run-dell.

In most parts of the country Croydon is pronounced Schit-hole

 

Mowgli37

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portlock seagull said:

Regional accents play havoc with pronounciation. Take for example this one. In Surrey they say "Palace" where as in Sussex we stress the second syllable and pronounce as "scum"

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Official Old Man

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I had a business in Bath Street 'up north' and when ordering goods for delivery I always got a "Where?" when I said Barth as opposed to Baaaath.

 

Gullflyinghigh

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World of Sport said:

Outside Sussex Arundel is pronounced A-run-dell.

In most parts of the country Croydon is pronounced Schit-hole

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I've also heard 'Air-on-dell' and 'Aron-dell'...

 

Wellesley

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• #38

Notters said:

Northerners in sounding different to us shocker.

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Exactly, I had a good mate from Bury. He would sometimes call me a cont and I would sometimes call him a caaant.

 

Notters

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You get funny looks if you ask for a coke in Hull. Apparently it's correctly pronounced coooooooooooorrrrrrk.

 

GT49er

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Lord Bracknell said:

What do people in Pollegatty know?

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Probably about as much as people in Groz-vee-nor Street...........