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

[Anonymous]

3 syllables:
Straw-ber-ree

Southern VA

[Anonymous]

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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

The reference was to Mary Berry

[Anonymous]

2 syllables. CA

[Anonymous]

One syllable: strawbs.

No, actually I say straw bear ree and I'm from the PNW.

[Anonymous]

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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?

I laughed so hard at this. I think the MD native just doesn't understand how to write phonetically or sound things out. In her head it probably sounded different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

The reference was to Mary Berry

Ohhhh haha! She’s a Berry not a bree

[Anonymous]

3. Foreigner.

[Anonymous]

3, of course. Illinois.

Incidentally, a reminder in this Olympic year that Tokyo has 2 syllables, not 3.

[Anonymous]

3- Wisconsin. straw-bear-ee

[Anonymous]

I seriously think someone said to their bro, "Hey watch this, I'm going to post the most inane, ridiculous thing ever on DCUM and just watch how many people give me dead serious answers."

[Anonymous]

Ha ha. You could be right!

[Anonymous]

We need more threads like this!

[Anonymous]

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

Love you, fellow phonics fan!

Instant flashback to kindergarten and clapping out the syllables.

It was a groovy time to be in school. (1975)