• sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        I’ve never heard anyone pronounce “tour” as rhymes with “sewer” in English. Perhaps in other languages?

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          5 months ago

          Maybe you’re pronouncing sewer in thinking of a person who sews instead of sewer as in waste drainage.

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          5 months ago

          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

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      5 months ago

      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”.