How do you pronounce these words?

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

pull= rhymes with full/bull

butch= the "bu" sounds like "oo" as in how I say book

mary= air (mairy)

pitta= like bit, pitta

hour= ow er

Yes I agree

Thing is, if we all pronounce the words we are using to illustrate the similar sounds with, differently, this is not much help!

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

Like flower op.

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.

Putsh ?

It'll be non-rhotic accents, they don't pronounce the R on the end and so add a vowel instead.

This

Mooch and hooch rhyme with butch for me.

pull= rhymes with bull
butch= rhymes with touch
mary= rhymes with hairy
pitta= pi'a (I like in, no t as Yorkshire accent)
hour= ow uh

I love all the different dialects we have in the UK BTW.

I love these threads by the way. I end up whispering the words to myself to work out how other MNers say the words.

@ChocolateGanache I’m surprised your ‘hour’ rhymes with ‘far’ if you speak with a southern accent!

Q already answered.

All the same for me!

pull= rhymes with wool.
butch= the oo sound is like soot + tch
mary= fairy
pitta= titter
hour= rhymes with cower.

Northern born, southern raised.

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld

Cwtch is a Welsh word.
It means cuddle or hug.

"Give us a Cwtch", when people are happy or upset.

Children and babies get lots of cwtches.

It's used by Welsh and non-Welsh speakers alike and is one of the most popular words and actions.☺️

Cwtch

Precisely

Hutch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?

Surely not.

Trying again to describe butch. The but part rhymes with put not cut. So putch.

To link some more; put, soot & foot rhyme using a soft, short oo sound.

Cut, nut and but rhyme using more of an uh sound.

Hutch, crutch & touch rhyme with each other but not with butch.

So interesting, if confusing.

I’m from the South and pronounce “our” and “are” the same (like they do in ‘Our House’ by Madness I guess).

However I pronounce hour as ‘flower’ 😄.

I'm finding butch rhyming with much really weird 😂

'He's such a butch fellow' with both words sounding the same?!

If anyone remembers Jolly Phonics, and the short and long 'oo', as demonstrated by the vowel sounds in the word 'cuckoo', then the 'u' in butch for me is the short 'oo', like in book, look.

Esmerelda Villa Lobos does quite a good 'Butch' in Pulp Fiction, although she strays slightly into long 'oo' territory.

I'm the same as @WoahThreeAces

I'm engaging my brain slightly though, and guessing that the pronunciation of much and such could be more of a Brummy-like 'such' with that short 'oo'.

I mean I pronounce our like flower but not in the way you are imagining I bet 😂

Oh I get it now, and I can hear what you're saying!

I don't have that short 'oo' you're describing in my accent so I was confused with some of the responses.

I also love these threads!

I have a friend who says moorhen as moo-err-hen and it sounds so lovely that when ever I see one I pronounce it like that in my head.

pull - rhymes with wool
butch - same u sound as in wool, then tch sounds the same as any ch at the end of a word
Mary - Mair to rhyme with fair, then unstressed ee
pitta - rhymes with litter
hour - almost rhymes with flower but nearer one syllable