# Are all British names with "-bury" pronounced "bree"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-british-names-with-bury-pronounced-bree/571366>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 14, 2011, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-british-names-with-bury-pronounced-bree/571366 "2011-02-14T21:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-british-names-with-bury-pronounced-bree/571366/81 "2011-02-17T00:18:42Z")

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> [@Irishman](#):
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> Here, let me help:  
> [The sounds of English and the International Phonetic Alphabet | Antimoon](http://www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm)  
> 😉 This has been coming up enough here at SDMB that I bookmarked that just for me.

Thank you. Not making any promises, mind. 🙂

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-all-british-names-with-bury-pronounced-bree/571366/82 "2011-02-17T00:25:49Z")

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> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Ar-can-saw with a hard R. I was born & raised in that fine state.

I know. My point was that its pronunciation is also not obvious from its spelling.

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