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minus-squaredisguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·5 months agoI pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?
minus-squaresensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoFeel like that’s as correct as we can get, as Americans.
minus-squareolosta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoFrench pronounce the “ou” as is “tour”. But you do you.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agoBore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer
minus-squaresensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-25 months agoI’ve never heard anyone pronounce “tour” as rhymes with “sewer” in English. Perhaps in other languages?
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 months agoCloser to sewer, or “doer” or “fewer”. Compress it to one syllable. Think “ooh” not “ohh”.
minus-squarestatic09@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoMaybe you’re pronouncing sewer in thinking of a person who sews instead of sewer as in waste drainage.
minus-squareMutilationWave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoNah don’t get it wrong I get shit because I say tour instead of tore. Poem instead of pOh-ehm. Theatre instead of thee-ate-err
minus-squaresparkle@lemm.eelinkfedilinkCymraegarrow-up3·edit-25 months agoIn most American dialects and some British dialects, “bore” and “tour” rhyme (called the “pour-poor merger”). But in some dialects it may rhyme with “sewer”/“two-er” or have the same sound as in “blue” or even as in “were”.
minus-squareBarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-25 months agoTour as in tu- er or tore? I’ve heard it pronounced both ways here in the states
minus-squaresensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoWhoa what? I’ve never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-25 months agoA more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.
I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?
Feel like that’s as correct as we can get, as Americans.
French pronounce the “ou” as is “tour”. But you do you.
Bore rhymes with tour… no?
Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer
I’ve never heard anyone pronounce “tour” as rhymes with “sewer” in English. Perhaps in other languages?
Closer to sewer, or “doer” or “fewer”. Compress it to one syllable. Think “ooh” not “ohh”.
Maybe you’re pronouncing sewer in thinking of a person who sews instead of sewer as in waste drainage.
Nah don’t get it wrong I get shit because I say tour instead of tore. Poem instead of pOh-ehm. Theatre instead of thee-ate-err
In most American dialects and some British dialects, “bore” and “tour” rhyme (called the “pour-poor merger”). But in some dialects it may rhyme with “sewer”/“two-er” or have the same sound as in “blue” or even as in “were”.
Tour as in tu- er or tore? I’ve heard it pronounced both ways here in the states
Whoa what? I’ve never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy
A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.