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?

mutt and scut rhyme with put and foot to me too...

Put, cut and boot all different sounds to me. Put is the same as foot and book. Cut, luck, up all the same. Boot, tooth, loot the same. The vowel sound in “cut” is the shortest, and “boot” the longest.

Hang on, you pronounce cut as coot!?

When posters say 'in my accent' they need to say what the accent is, or the region they come from really. Otherwise we are none the wiser.

I am home counties - put, soot and foot rhyme for me unlike loot where the oos are longer like loo with t

Also Irish but further south.
Put rhymes with but, soot and foot for me.
Putt is different and rhymes with cut, gut, hut, jut, mutt, rut.
Boot, hoot, loot and root are different again.

Explains why I always had trouble with some of the rhyming books for kids 😊

For me,

Put rhymes with soot and boot

Putt with cut and but

Weirdly though soot and suit do not sound the same...don’t know that I’d noticed that before.

Yes they do.

But foot also rhymes with but?!?! So put, but and foot rhyme.

My mind is boggled.

From Dublin - put, putt, cut, soot, foot, look, luck all have the same short sound

boot, loot, tooth, truth are the same

It seems that sometimes foot rhymes with boot and sometimes with shut?

I am more confused than I was at the start of the thread.

I'm Irish and put rhymes with foot but not root or boot. Putt rhymes with cut.

I'm lancashire
Putt, put, hut, but, cut, soot, nut, rut, tut, foot all rhyme.

So when your kids are learning to read and you sound out the letters 'p-u-t'....the outcome is 'poot'?

Where's the ooooooh coming from?

My mind is blown 😅

What about foot? (I'm baffled by a PP's assertion that foot and boot don't rhyme!)

Foot rhymes with all the words above in my accent, but not with boot.
Boot rhymes with coot, hoot, jute, loot, moot, route, toot.

In some accents if you were to say 'put that boot on your foot' the words put, boot and foot rhyme?

"So when your kids are learning to read and you sound out the letters 'p-u-t'....the outcome is 'poot'?

Where's the ooooooh coming from?

My mind is blown 😅"

That's why it's a red word! Because it's not phonetically decidable, or it would be "putt" 🤣

Golf - put/rut/shut
Putter/butter

To place - put/foot

Yes in Scotland

Like cut, but, hut, rut. Not an oo sound at all. I'm from the North East of England.

For me it rhymes with foot. It has the same vowel sound as wood/would.
It's not like putt, but, cut - it's a longer sound.

I think it's regional. I had a Welsh friend who said putt for put.

If up north the up sound is pronounced oop, is this correct? So cup for example would be coop. And cut would be coot.

For me put rhymes with foot. But putt rhymes with but, not boot lol.

Yes this is how I would group the rhyming words.

I'm quite discombobulated at the idea of but rhyming with foot! 🤣

I am totally confused.

To be put/Putt/but/cut/foot/book/soot all rhyme

Boot/moot/suit all rhyme.

I don't get how put and boot rhyme - do you say pewt/boot or put/but