Do you say strawberry in one, two, or three syllables and where are you from?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:British speakers smush it so the syllables arent audible.
Strwbry. Try saying it without moving your upper lip and youll hear it.

Im from all over the South and use 3- straw bear-ry.

I use the British pronunciation for advertisement, privacy, neither, either, vitamin, niche, etc. It makes more sense phonetically.

Most English words where a single consonant is followed by a single vowel and then another vowel (e.g prIVAcy or vITAmin), the first vowel is long. So, the American pronunciations are the ones which follow phonetic rules. That isn't to say that the British ones are wrong, but using them because they "make more sense" is idiotic.

[Anonymous]

OP you need to come back and further explain how on earth you think 'strawberry' can ever be pronounced with one syllable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:British speakers smush it so the syllables arent audible.
Strwbry. Try saying it without moving your upper lip and youll hear it.

Im from all over the South and use 3- straw bear-ry.

I use the British pronunciation for advertisement, privacy, neither, either, vitamin, niche, etc. It makes more sense phonetically.

You can cover strwb with one syllable, but you can’t move on to -ry without another, stiff upper lip or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say strawbry, because I'm British. Same with all berries.

How do you say Strawbridges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say strawbry, because I'm British. Same with all berries.

Bluebree? Blackbree?

[Anonymous]

2 - Long Island

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm cracking up at the idea of saying strawberry as one syllable

It’s stressing me out trying to figure out how one would do that.

Simple. You redefine syllable. Duh

[Anonymous]

3- ESL person here. I see 3, I say 3. If I wanted to leave anything out, I also wouldn't waste in on it.

[Anonymous]

One syllable....NOVA. Same for all my neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Three. Straw-berr-ee
From NYC suburbs

[Anonymous]

Straw-bry
Md native

[Anonymous]

3. PA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One syllable....NOVA. Same for all my neighbors.

Um you need to look up what syllable means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Straw-bry
Md native

I don't understand. You pronounce Berry to rhyme with the Fry? Like I had Straw Bries and French Fries?

[Anonymous]

Three. Australia