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How do you pronounce these words?

143 replies

Lattey · 29/10/2024 23:31

pull= rhymes with fool/tool
butch= rhymes with mooch
mary= meary as opposed to merry
pitta= pita rather then peeta
hour= ar

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Leftleg · 30/10/2024 00:04

pull= p-uh-ll rhymes with bull
butch= b-uh-tch rhymes with such
mary= m-air-y rhymes with fairy
pitta= pit-a rhymes with bitter
hour= aw-er rhymes with flower

East mids

Craftyroom · 30/10/2024 00:05

Lattey · 29/10/2024 23:53

Yes

That's interesting you're Scottish. I am too (highlands) but have lived down south of England since early teens.

For years I got the mickey taken because I'd get my 'oo' sounds wrong in words.

For example I think in Scotland growing up we used to pronounce food like good (a short uh sound).

Down south I used to get quite tongue-tied getting uds and ooods confused. Like food is Fooood, but good is not Gooood. (if that makes sense!)

And as for William (Willy-am). I can only say Wiw-yam.

EmmaEmEmz · 30/10/2024 00:07

pull= rhymes with bull, hull
butch= rhymes with hutch
mary= mare -ree
pitta= pit-ta
hour= ow-a

autienotnaughty · 30/10/2024 00:09

ErnestTheBavarian · 29/10/2024 23:37

pull= rhymes with full/bull
butch= rhymes with much
mary= air (mairy)
pitta= like bit, pitta
hour= ower

Northerner?

ErnestTheBavarian · 30/10/2024 00:13

autienotnaughty · 30/10/2024 00:09

Northerner?

Correct 😌

Bbq1 · 30/10/2024 00:15

BarbaraHoward · 29/10/2024 23:36

pull= rhymes with hull
butch= rhymes with hutch
mary= rhymes with hairy, subtly different to merry
pitta= pit-ah
hour= our (rhymes with flour)

This

ErnestTheBavarian · 30/10/2024 00:17

Lattey · 29/10/2024 23:53

Yes

Nice. Am stupidly chuffed.

PyongyangKipperbang · 30/10/2024 00:36

BarbaraHoward · 29/10/2024 23:36

pull= rhymes with hull
butch= rhymes with hutch
mary= rhymes with hairy, subtly different to merry
pitta= pit-ah
hour= our (rhymes with flour)

I think you will find its pronounced 'Ull 😉

Towerofsong · 30/10/2024 00:40

Wow, some different pronunciations above!

pull= rhymes with bull, full or the Müll in Müller yoghurt

butch= rhymes with cwtch, the u is like the u in put, bull, full

mary= mare-ee, emphasis on first syllable

pitta= rhymes with critter

hour= rhymes with our

Southerner (Suther-na)

Printedword · 30/10/2024 01:06

Lattey · 29/10/2024 23:56

ow wa?? I can’t imagine how that sounds in reality
so interesting
I say hour as “ar” rhyming with far

As in aah wa? I think a better transcription of how I say it is that the h is silent so
‘our wa’

StillAtTheRestaurant · 30/10/2024 01:10

pool
bootch
mayry
peeta
our

I'm also Scottish and I can't work out how or where hour would be said as ar!

LoafofSellotape · 30/10/2024 01:13

ErnestTheBavarian · 29/10/2024 23:44

How does bull not rhyme with hull?

Not even close in my accent 😂 I'm trying to make them sound the same and I can't !

samarrange · 30/10/2024 01:16

pull - rhymes with wool
butch - same vowel as pull
mary - rhymes with hairy
pitta - as in pitter-patter
hour - rhymes with sour

(Now ask me how I pronounce wool, hairy, and sour!)

GiddyRobin · 30/10/2024 01:18

Pull - Puhl
Butch - buhtch; rhymes with hutch, much.
Mary - Marree
Pitta - pee-tah
Hour - ar

Irish family, grew up in the NW England, but had elocution lessons as a kid because I had a lisp! So now it's a mangled thing!

alexdgr8 · 30/10/2024 01:27

ErnestTheBavarian · 29/10/2024 23:44

How does bull not rhyme with hull?

Hull rhymes with cull.
Bull rhymes with full.

alexdgr8 · 30/10/2024 01:35

I cannot think of anything that rhymes with butch.
Cert not hutch which seems a shorter simpler sound.
I think I speak standard southern English.

GiddyRobin · 30/10/2024 01:38

alexdgr8 · 30/10/2024 01:35

I cannot think of anything that rhymes with butch.
Cert not hutch which seems a shorter simpler sound.
I think I speak standard southern English.

Crutch?

Garlicbest · 30/10/2024 01:42

It's just as interesting to see how people try to spell phonetically! (I don't know IPA, either.) My effort:

pull and butch have a short 'oo' sound, so do book and look
fool and tool have a long 'oo'
mooch has a very long 'oo'
mary is more 'mairy' than merry
pitta is peeta
hour sounds like 'a - oo - uh'

West Midlands via London.

Chorizo is 'ker ee zoh' in English and I will die on this hill 😂

YourSpleenIsDamp · 30/10/2024 01:45

GiddyRobin · 30/10/2024 01:38

Crutch?

But crutch rhymes with hutch, not butch 🤯

Garlicbest · 30/10/2024 01:45

GiddyRobin · 30/10/2024 01:38

Crutch?

No, crutch rhymes with much and hutch for me. 'Uh' not 'oo'.
Butch has a short 'oo'.

GiddyRobin · 30/10/2024 01:48

Ahhhh! My Northern vowels make u sounds really hard! It's a proper "uhh" sound when I say it!

GiddyRobin · 30/10/2024 01:50

That said, "book" is "boohk" with an "ooh" not a "buck" sound! 🤣

blindasaba51981 · 30/10/2024 01:58

Pull- Puhl (rhymes with bull)
Butch- buhtch (rhymes with cwtch)
Mary- Meh-ry (rhymes with Carey)
Pitta- pit-ta (rhymes with bitter)
hour- owe-r (rhymes with flower)

Wordsmithery · 30/10/2024 03:28

Waitingfordoggo · 29/10/2024 23:50

I’m confused at some of the pronunciations of ‘butch’. For me the vowel is the same as the one in ‘book’ or ‘put’. Any southerners say it the same or am I saying it wrong?

Southerner here. I agree with you

starbat · 30/10/2024 03:45

Lattey · 29/10/2024 23:31

pull= rhymes with fool/tool
butch= rhymes with mooch
mary= meary as opposed to merry
pitta= pita rather then peeta
hour= ar

Pull (p-uh-l) rhymes with full.
Pool (p-ooh-l) rhymes with fool.
Butch (b-uh-t-ch) doesn't rhyme with mooch (moo-ch) for me.
Mary (m-air-ey) rhymes with fairy.
Pitta (p-it-ah), the other way is an Americanism.
Hour (ow-err), if you asked me "what ar is it?" I'd look at you like you've lost the plot and wouldn't have a clue what you meant.