How do you pronounce the word 'put'?

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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, cut, foot, but, soot, tut, rut, mutt, nut, gut, hut all rhyme for me - Nottingham accent. East Midlands.

Reception teacher here .
A lot of does depend on regional accent , but in my school phonics scheme
put - harder to read and spell / red word / tricky word
but, cut - decodable/ green words ( b- u -t)
short /oo/ - book nook foot book look
long /oo/ - scoop with a spoon , moon, tooth, boot
I'm in London and pronounce put to rhyme with foot

Got to love English language !!!

Years ago I did a course in teaching English as a foreign language and had to complete a kind of test to apply for a place. One of the questions was 'how would you explain the difference in pronunciation of 'put' and 'putt' to learners?'. I was so confused! Where I'm from (north lincs), they are pronounced exactly the same and I'd never noticed others pronounced them differently.

U and short OO sound are the same for me

So put, cut, soot, foot, book, buck all share the same vowel sound

In reality my u sound is not as short as someone from other parts of the UK. I can't make the u sound you need in German for example to distinguish it from ü

In my accent it doesn't rhyme with either. I'm trying to think of a word it does rhyme with but having trouble (especially as the words may not sound the same in every dialect anyway!)

This. But I’m a TA. And we have to use the wanky term, common exception words…….

People's minds are blown that people have different accents??

In what accent do cut and foot rhyme?!

But and cut

fut

booot

NW England here - put, but, cut, gut, hut, jut, nut, rut, and tut all rhyme for me. As do foot and soot, but not boot, coot, hoot, loot, moot, root and toot, which have long vowels.

In my North Staffordshire accent they do

Put, putt, cut, foot, soot, tut, mutt etc

I agree with @maximist !

not as an oo sound but an uh

Mine. NW.

Foot, butt, but, cut, put and putt sound the same.

Boot, cute, suit sound the same.

Book, suck, luck, look sound the same.

Mine. North Wales.

When my cousin was little she was asked if she could think of the name of a bird that rhymed with "book".
She ( born and bred in W Yorkshire) decided it was "duck". Which in her accent, was correct!

I would like to replace the T with S and give this thread …

pus

and puss!

For me, SW Scotland, this reverses the put/putt effect.

Snap

From N Ireland

I’m reading and re reading this and I am absolutely flummoxed - how can ‘put’ and ‘putt’ be pronounced differently?!!? And how does one not rhyme with ‘foot’? Trying out a whole host of accents here!

@100thname how do they not rhyme? Which would be pronounced differently?? This whole thread is mind blowing.

So this (although I don’t think it’s perfect) shows how it is pronounced officially, as in in an RP accent. Same goes for bush, push etc.

In many accents however, mine included in the northwest, we just use the same ‘I’ sound as we would in butt, putt etc for put and also for foot and soot.

Put - same as foot. "Urh" sounding
Boot is more "oooot" - south England