How do you pronounce the word 'put'?

[FruitToast]

I've spent the weekend entirely confused by the word 'put'. Apparently it's a red/tricky word in phonics but surely it's just a phonetic pronunciation and rhymes with cut or but. Is it a dialect thing? Or have I been pronouncing put wrong my entire life?

I pronounce it to rhyme with foot.

It's "poot" in my accent (Central Scotland) - definitely not the same as cut and but.

Not like cut or but to me. The 'u' is a short 'oo' sound. Rhymes with book and cook (the short 'oo' sound, not the way Scousers pronounce it).

Are you saying you pronounce it like putt in golf?

Poot to rhyme with foot and boot.
I'm in Scotland

To me, putt (as in golfing) rhymes with cut. Put rhymes with root/cute/boot/toot.

English is a fascinating language!

Put, cut, foot, soot.

In RP (ie the non-regional accent), it doesn't rhyme.

In my accent, cut and but rhyme with each other and have a short vowel sound in the middle.

To me, put rhymes with foot.

I've never heard it rhyme with but! Like PPs, when I say it, it rhymes with foot.

This.

Put rhymes with foot here in London

Same - but SE England.

Or have I been pronouncing put wrong my entire life?

Sounds like it OP 😁

I say puht but some people, including the Scottish, say poot. However, I’m a Geordie and my puht sounds different to a southern puht which is maybe leaning more like a purt. Mine is exactly the same as my ‘cut’ sound but theirs isn’t.

I’m hungover and not explaining this well but I understand why it might be tricky.

PS

In my accent, "putt" (as in putting a golf ball) does rhyme with "cut" and "but".

Put rhymes with foot, soot, and kaput.

Preparing my popcorn for the inevitable bunfight; people get so het up about this!

I think i say it like ‘puh’ but hard

It rhymes with but and cut in my accent (geordie)

It always amazes me that for such a relatively small (geographically) country we have so much variation in accent/dialect!

Are you all mad???
PUT, CUT, FOOT, BUT all rhyme.
SOOT, BOOT, MOOT all rhyme.

We have the very best language, it's the regional variations that really make it 😁

Like foot

Put and putt sound exactly the same in my accent. They both rhyme with cut and foot. But not soot, which is the same as suit.

Are you playing golf or moving something?

In my accent, put rhymes with but and foot (as in, if foot was spelt fut). But boot has the long oo sound

Cut rhymes with Putt, not put.

Put rhymes with foot.

South East accent.

I'm from Dublin and in my accent it rhymes with cut, but, foot. Also, put and putt are the same sound to me.

Rhymes for me (RP-ish London):

Put, soot, foot

cut, but, putt, mutt

cute, mute

moot, loot, shoot, chute, suit