How do you pronounce these words?

[Lattey]

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

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

IDK where, but there's somewhere where the accent makes the words "our" and "are" sound exactly the same, it makes sense that "hour" would sound that way too, for them.

Pull - full.
Butch - putsch.
Mary - hairy.
Pitta - I spell it pita and pronounce it peeta.
Hour - pronounced ow-ur. Rhymes with bower.

I'm Scottish and this is how I pronounce these words too.

This.

Yes here in NI our is pronounced arr in lots of accents, with the R sounded. (Not my accent as I'm not from here.) Flower, tower etc are all arr sounds too.

Famous example being parr sharr for an arr = power shower for an hour.

No, that would be pool!
Pull rhymes with full, short vowel sound.

So if there was an aggressive bull that someone wanted to taunt you might say, "Don't pool the tail of the bool, he''s very booch" ??

Never heard anyone pronounce like that! Where is your accent from?

I am finding this very entertaining!

pull - rhymes with bull but not with hull or pool.
butch - rhymes with very little although I agree with putsch. Definitely not hutch or much
mary - Mairy. Not merry.
pitta - I’ve heard peeta (which rhymes with Peter for me) and also pittuh.
hour - ower (as in ow I hurt myself not row boat.)

I’m Australian

It would be much more helpful if posters states where they live.

Because bull has a short oo sound and hull is more of an uh sound. I'm from South London, but live in Yorkshire and most people round here would say that pull and hull sound the same, but they don't to me.

Pull ryhmes with full or bull not pool
Butch does not rhyme with hutch. It also has a short oo sound, and hutch has an uh sound.
Mary - hairy
Pitta - pitter/ bitter
Hour - sour/flour

I have no idea how cwtch is pronounced BTW

Pull - same as pool
Butch - bootch
Mary - May-ray
Pitta - pitta
Hour - ow-err

What part of the UK lengthens the uh sound to oo?

Because people have different accents…?

DH - north west - hull and bull rhyme

Me - south west - hull and bull do not rhyme. U in ‘hull’ is like a mixture of an ‘ah’ and an ‘uh’. Whereas bull rhymes with pull and full for me.

Pull - rhymes with bull, as in an 'uh' sound
Butch - rhymes with much, another 'uh' sound
Mary - Rhymes with hairy, but also sometimes Marry.
Hour - the words hour and our are exactly the same for me!

I'm from the midlands and if I see an u I don't say oo but if I see an oo I sometimes say u!

These threads are a nightmare for phonics as people (including me) don’t know the official symbols and actually what they are saying, just do their best to describe it and then someone else reading in a different accent then has their own separate reference for the explanation they’ve just read.
I really need to learn the official phonics symbol things as it would actually help my job 😄

Depends how the reader pronounces these words so not sure particularly helpful but for me:

Pull - rhymes with full
Hull - rhymes with mull
(for some people mull and full will rhyme so they will apparently according to MN think I’m an idiot for saying these differently…)

Butch - rhymes with cwtch
Hutch - rhymes with much
(for some people cwtch and much will rhyme so they will apparently according to MN think I’m an idiot for saying these differently…)

Mary - rhymes with hairy

Hour - same as our. Ow-uh.

Pitta - pit-uh like fritter (which a lot of people will say don’t rhyme as fritter has an R on the end….. accents!)

Pull rhymes with Hull or lull, ie p.ull, u not oo
Butch rhymes with hutch ie b.utch, u not oo
Mary rhymes with scary, sc.aery
Pitta with fitter, ie pit.ta
Hour rhymes with sour, but the h is dropped and becomes ow.er

@RampantIvy Scotland 🙄
I also make no difference between the oo sound in moon and look

Used to be a nightmare teaching children when asked to identify the long and short oo sounds- they just don't exist here.

News flash - people across the UK have different accents!

pull= Hull
butch=much
mary= fairy
pitta= pitter
hour= our

pull= with a short uh sound, not oo, bull, full, gull all the same
butch= same vowel sound as above
mary= to rhyme with hairy, scary, lairy
pitta= pit-ah. Short a sound. Slighty different from bitter, litter etc.
hour= ow er. Our is closer to are for me. Our kid!

In SE England but from Manchester originally.

Also Scottish and this for me. Although I probably use both pitta and peeta.

I've never heard pull or full to rhyme with hull or mull, I might try it out just to confuse everyone here 😁

Yes that's exactly how I'd say that!

You’ve NEVER heard it??? Just watch telly and you’ll hear many accents. MAFS for example!

When Yorkshire born and bred DD was learning her phonetic alphabet I really confused her with my London born and bred pronunciation of the letter U.

I said U (uh) for umbrella and and she asked why it wasn't oo for oombrella 😀

@Lattey scottish and i have never even heard of the word cwtch!! how on earth is that spoken? where is that word from?

@RaraRachael love that, accents are so interesting!

Where I grew up there were a lot of replacement words as well. For instance, I used to say wun-nah instead of wouldn't, cun-nah instead of couldn't, tin-nah instead of 'it isn't', and I was always dropping my Ts. So that would become tha' etc.
I've lost it mostly now. I got very self conscious of it when I was younger and felt very common but wish I'd kept it now 🤣

To say ah instead of our sounds very posh to my ears. Like when people say rum instead of room (oo sound)