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OP Speaking of strawberries the other day, which are just coming into season (yum,yum!), I caught myself saying strawBEARY (or, BAREY) instead of strawBERRY (or, BURY). Reflecting upon this it seems that I have readily used both pronunciations over the years when speaking of berries of all kinds, without any rhyme or reason, and believe this to be just an aberration of lazy linguistics. Is anyone aware of any dialect or accent or region which prefers one pronunciation over the other? Does anyone else use both these verbal forms when speaking of the berry? Does anyone here use *only one or the other? Would be interested to hear...
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