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?

Put rhymes with

foot,
but,
cut,
mutt,
nut,
rut,
soot,
Tut,

doesn’t rhyme with
root
boot
shoot,

etc

but we say haitch as a recognised part of our dialect too, so we are a mad unMN lot.

Red word RWI 'put' as in 'put your shoes on'. It's a red word as it rhymes with foot, boot, shoot; not but, cut, shut.

This.

Poot as in foot, not putt as in golf.
Putting pronounced similarly to pudding.

I'm in NE Scotland (where it's usually pronounced "pit" as in "pit it doon").

To me put, cut, but, foot, soot all rhyme with a short 'uh' sound. If I put something on the table it's pronounced exactly the same at a golf putt. Definitely not a red word in my dialect.

put, boot, foot all rhyme

It rhymes with soot for me. It's said completely differently to putt.

Same for me - Edinburgh area

It has a sound that is somewhere between "uh" and "or" in the middle

For me it rhymes with foot and soot (also the sound of "Sooty and Sweep")

foot and soot don't rhyme with boot though - boot has an ooo sound

Put definitely doesn't rhyme with cut and but (which do rhyme with each other, with an "uh" sound)

Putt, OTOH does rhyme with cut and but, as indeed, does butt.

I'd hate to try and learn English as a foreign language

If I'm being posh as above but in the North East of Scotland in local dialect it's pit, not put.

If you think about the shape of your mouth,

when you say 'cut' my lips draw back and up a tiny bit as if heading to a smile, but it you say 'put' my lips go into more of a pout.

Put rhymes with foot, not cut or but. SW London.

Not all Scousers pronounce book and look with the long sound I'd say most don't.

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West Yorkshire - put rhymes with foot, but, cut, putt, soot, hut.

Boot, root, shoot, coot are said differently and all rhyme.

I've not seen put mentioned as a tricky word here.

Same for me in North Wales

How on earth does foot and soot ryhme with the others in your list??

Put rhymes with foot.

Foot and boot don't rhyme.

It rhymes with foot to me.

Not cut, but, mutt. If you pronounced it like this it would be putt as in golf.

Boot and moot is a different u/oo sound again!

However, although it's technically a red word, I tend to think that the pronunciation is close enough and most DC wouldn't have a problem in decoding it. It's not like most four year olds know the word putt. And it's typically clear in context. So I could see how it might seem a bit overkill to mark it as a tricky word.

Foot sounds like fut
Boot sounds like bewt
Put rhymes with foot

Simple!

Is it that your u sound in cut/but/putt is elongated as in "oop North" ?

put, cut, but, foot, soot all rhyme in my accent too

While I am from a couple of hundred miles southwest of you and while ‘put’ rhymes with ‘foot’, ‘putt’ is a different vowel sound — rhymes with ‘mutt’ and ‘scut’.

I'm from the west midlands....even tooth is t-u-th instead of t-oo-th! However boot and moot would have a long 'oo' sound. Foot and soot have a short 'oo'. I've moved to the NW so do endeavour to say t-oo-th now to appease my colleagues.