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?

Soo different over here! I love that we all are so different

Put rhymes with foot.
Boot rhymes with lute and cute.
I’m also in Scotland 😅

Put, cut, but, soot, foot, putt, mutt, nut, kaput, tut all the same.

Root, cute, boot, suit all the same

Well I pronounce ‘cut’ with a short ‘uh’ noise, coming from the back of my mouth! same as cup, up, under (for me!)

Foot is also a short sound but coming from the middle of my mouth, closer to ‘oo’ but not as drawn out as a scouse ‘oo’ (or the noise a cow makes!) It sounds like book, hook, look, took…

I'm in the SE, born in London.

For me put rhymes with foot. Cut rhymes with but and with shut. Mute rhymes with newt. Moot rhymes with boot.

OMG I am so confused!! 😂 Did not realise 'put' could be pronounced any other way...! (p-uh-t for me (NW) put & putt are the same)
My mind is blown!!!!!

They do in Lancashire and in Cheshire

I'm gathering from this thread that the fairground game "hook a duck" doesn't rhyme in some places 😅

It certainly doesn’t for me… it’s amazing to me that it does for anyone! 😁

Yup
It rhymes to me but not to my DH
Reminds me of the old Co op slogan. It rhymed in his Scottish accent, but not in my lancashire one. "Good with Food".

Bit hard to type how I say it. Not same as cut, or boot.

NW hear and put rhymes with putt, foot, cut, shut, hut. Boot is completely different and rhymes with loot, shoot, root.
good with food doesn’t remotely rhyme but hook a duck does!

For me, but definitely doesn't rhyme with put or foot. But rhymes with (pitch and) putt and cut.

West London:

put
foot
soot

___

newt
boot
root
lute
shoot
toot
cute
_

putt
cut
but
rut
shut
nut
gut

Would pp say 'Put the putty on the windowsill', using the same sound for the two words?!

Yes

I’m with you, user, and also Scottish! There are loads of accent variations within Scotland (and within cities - I’m from Edinburgh)

Put, putt, cut, foot all sound the same to me. I've been saying them over and over in my head trying to work out how they could be pronounced differently. Is it that southern thing of pronouncing the u to almost sound like an a - you do it for some of these words and not others?

Put, cut, but, foot, soot, putt all rhyme to me! Totally phonetic p/u/t. I can't even work out how it would be different. Surely not poot to rhyme with shoot or loot?! So if the oo that pp are talking about is the short one as in book or look, that's the same sound to me as the /u/ in put.
Put, cut, but, foot, soot, putt, book, look all have the same /u/ sound in them.

Threads like this make me think we should all be taught phonetic writing in schools. If that’s what it‘s called? I mean the way words are written out in dictionaries to show how they are pronounced, with weird letters like the upside down e for the schwa ‘uh’ sound.

’It rhymes with foot and boot’ leaves me clueless as in my accent foot and boot definitely don’t rhyme!

@bluesky45

but when you say but and foot rhyme (they don't for me - London)

you're saying that you say booooot for but aren't you? A long ooooo for but.

Not that you're saying fut for foot?

God this is hard!
We all need to get on a zoom meeting.

(or zum meeting? 😂)

I'm originally from the far north of Scotland and while in my posh Scottish accent 'put' rhymes with all the 'oo' words (DH tells me there are two different groups of 'oo' words but for me they are all the same, as are many 'ou' words) my original accent it's more like the Doric 'pit' but with a slightly longer vowel sound.

Tyneside - Put/cut/but

The u in put is said like oo. The u in but sounds like the o in money.

Aha, Google (for me at least) has a southern English accent like mine. If I search for ‘pronounce put’ it gives a short oo, ‘pronounce cut’ gives an u sound, and ‘pronounce too’ gives a long oo, which for me is the sound in boot. Three different vowels.