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

[Anonymous]

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’

[Anonymous]

Three. From inside the beltway.

OP are you British or did you grow up around British people?

[Anonymous]

I think you mean straw-bry vs straw-ber-y.

I say it as 3 syllables which I think is correct.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

I don't really see how anyone could pronounce it in one...even two I would think would be more like "Straw-bree"

So yeah, I pronounce it with 3 syllables...I'm from all over--early childhood in Massachusetts, teen/early adult years in California, have lived in the DMV since I was 31 (46 now.)

[Anonymous]

3. Grew up outside Boston

[Anonymous]

Three Chevy Chase

[Anonymous]

It is not possible to say strawberry in one syllable, OP. I use three syllables: stra-bear-y

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is not possible to say strawberry in one syllable, OP. I use three syllables: stra-bear-y

^ I'm from northern CA.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

3-Michigan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you mean straw-bry vs straw-ber-y.

I say it as 3 syllables which I think is correct.

+1

3
Northeast

[Anonymous]

Definitely 3, but I say it more like bury than bear-y.

Grew up in maryland with extended family in new england.

[Anonymous]

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