How do you pronounce these 2 words…ate and Jude?

[Tunacan6]

How do you pronounce these 2 words and where are you from? I’ve heard them on tv said a lot different to how I say them.

1. ate…I said ‘et’ as in let, met, bet etc
2. jude…like dude, food, mood

from the north of Ireland

8
Dude same as food

I'm from Birmingham.

Ate - like 'ett'

Jude - rhyming with food and dude

"ett" is a regional colloquialism I think?

"Tom's on a special diet but he accidentally ate something with lactose" - rhymes with 8

"No birthday cake left, greedy Tom ate it all up" - might say ett here but also might not.

Second one is informal and usually when talking to other northeners

West Yorkshire.

ate like 8
Jude like food.

I've heard lots of people pronounce 'ate' like 'et', but I've never heard anyone pronounce 'Jude' any other way except 'Jood'.

Eight and Jood.

Ate I think I say like eight, but I recognise an alternative past form of eat, pronounced "et" - I'd have spelt that as "eat" though. As in "He eat all of it yesterday!"

I see it as a colloquial, informal, maybe regional variation. I actually didn't really notice it until an ESL speaker pointed it out to me and asked why people say this! Then I started to notice it more. I hear it in the Coventry accent which is near where I grew up.

Jude/food/rude all rhyme to me.

There’s quite a lot of variation across England as well, from “eart” to “ayte” to “ite” and probably a few more.

For me, 'ate' rhymes with 'eight' if it has emphasis in the sentence. Otherwise it's 'ett'.
Food and Jude don't exactly rhyme, but the sounds aren't too dissimilar. 'Food' had a slightly different 'oo' sound. I can see that they'd rhyme more, or less, precisely in different accents.

Hull ? Or south Yorks ?

ate - "ah tay"

jude - "jud eh"

Ate ... like 8.
But like others on this thread might occasionally say "ett" for ate but only in a certain context (and when speaking casually and it can replace either ate or eaten). For instance "he ett all his dinner". My kids must have picked up on this as they used to say "I etted it all, mummy".

Jude - with a long oo sound, like rude, dude, food etc.
I couldn't see how you could pronounce it differently until one poster said "Jew-id" and I remembered a Welsh girl I house shared with at Uni who used to pronounce "cool" like "kew-ell".

I'm from Kent (now Berkshire).

Also West Mids and definitely do both 8 and ett for ate, no idea why. Jude like The Beatles!

'sorry to hear you are poorly, it must be something you eight'

'I ett in a restaurant '

No idea why.

Ate like hate without the h
Jude to rhyme with food.
From the north of England

Ate- 8
Jude- rhymes with food

Northwest England

There are some very good accent videos on youtube, even including from decades ago. I like the cockney ones from during WWII.

ate - "ah tay"jude - "jud eh"
I understand accents etc, but these??

Ate- I go back and forth between 8 and et.
Jude- like dude/food

South Wales

Ate = ett
Jude = dude, not food as
Food = fudd

Ate as Eight. (But I've heard it as "Et" frequently, I think it depends on the phrase and situation.)
Jude to rhyme with crude.

Live in London now, was brought up in Hertfordshire, have Welsh ancestors.

I would say I ate to rhyme with eight, and he/she ate to rhyme with ett. God knows why, “I ett” just sounds wrong.

Born in S Yorkshire, live in London.

I would say ate as ett. I ett a salad for lunch.

Jude rhymes with food, not fud as in Scotland

I use ett and eight for ate. SE England but Yorkshire origins.

He ett his dinner
He eight it all up

Here - year
ear - year
year - year

😉

Ate eight
Jude Dude
SW Scotland where were speak Scots or Ulster Scots.