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

[Anonymous]

Three syllables .. located on the west coast

[Anonymous]

I calls em Sterbs.

Only way to get there in one syllable you lunatic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

more like straw-bree

That’s the proper way to say it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I don’t think you understand the concept of syllables.

+1

[Anonymous]

Same way you say liberry of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Two - D.C.


It seems like people either say or fall into the camps of -

“Strawberry” fast and making it all as one, often with the leaning on berry sounding more like the word ‘bury’
“Straw-berry” turning it to two
“Straw-ber-ry”making it into three, again I often can hear ‘bury’ vs. ‘berry’

Curse you, OP. I read the title and have spent the better part of the day trying to figure out how the hell strawberry could ever be a one syllable word.

[Anonymous]

The speed with which you say a word has no bearing on the number of syllables.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

more like straw-bree

That’s the proper way to say it

+1

[Anonymous]

3 syllables, from northern VA

[Anonymous]

3, local nova

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Bluebree? Blackbree?

Yep. Mulbree, all of them!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Bluebree? Blackbree?

Yep. Mulbree, all of them!

Mary?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Bluebree? Blackbree?

Yep. Mulbree, all of them!

Mary?

Mary is MARE-ree

But Marie is Muh-REE

[Anonymous]

3 VA

[Anonymous]

3 syllables for me, and berry definitely sounds more like berry than bury. I grew up in Appalachia with parents from the deep South and Midwest.

But when my dad is being silly (which is often) he'll call them strawbs or strawbrees in a somewhat affect voice. He also likes to say raaahsbree for raspberry.