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

I don’t understand why you wouldn’t? A number of people say it that way. It’s very common where I’m from.

Where's that?

All short vowels for me. I speak "posh" Southern English. DP's from Bradford-his would be long, although not as long as they used to be-I have corrupted him over the years!

But is it butcher or butcher?

"Hour" is interesting, with a lot of posters going for ow-er, but as a dyed in the wool southerner, that's too much splitting it into two. There's a newsreader on Greatest Hits Radio here in Surrey who over emphasises that every time she reads the news and it comes across as owwer and it really grates. Really its one syllable, more like owwr. In my opinion, of course!

@HearMePlough I absolutely loved studying phonetics and phonology as part of English Language and Linguistics. Please can you tell me a little bit about your job? Are you an academic?

I say "tong" (from east midlands) and I wouldn't change the way I say it just because someone from the south told me it was wrong!

I have a "telephone voice" that I use as, if I spoke with my normal accent I probably wouldn't be understood.
Hate using voice controlled things too.

No.
In my speech crutch still rhymes with hutch.
I have thought further and the only one that I can find is a rather technical term from political science
Putsch.

But Morris they’re not saying ‘much’ the way you say much. I wish we could audio record like you can on X (not that I use X…!).

Theyre not saying ‘much’ the way a southerner would say ‘much’ - I’m assuming as you are questioning it then your accent is similar to mine. Butch to rhyme with a southern ‘much’, I agree that’s pretty unheard of. But ‘much’ to rhyme with ‘butch’ in another accent - for example my husband’s (Manchester) - totally works.

I think I'm getting it now. Perhaps the best way to clear it up is to imagine how Fiona Bruce would say it.

What word that Fiona might say would rhyme with a Brummie saying butch?

A PP suggested butcher. At least that's how I imagine Fiona says it...

Basically a lot of people say ‘much’ with the U sound like a lot of other people pronounce the ‘oo’ in ‘book’ or ‘look’. They also pronounce ‘butch’ with that same sound. But then they might pronounce ‘book’ more like ‘bewk’. So their ‘book’ and ‘much’ won’t have the same vowel sound, but your book and their ‘much’ (and therefore ‘butch’), will.

@MorrisZapp

I always thought that one was a typo because to me they don't even sound the same.
Non (n-on)
None (n-un)

It's people learning English as a foreign language I feel sorry for. We can't even agree between ourselves what words ought to sound like because of all the different accents 😆 so I feel it must be a nightmare for learners. But also maybe makes the British more tolerant of, and better able to understand, foreigners attempts at speaking English. Because even if they get it totally wrong, we're used to hearing all kinds anyway, even amongst ourselves.

Pull - rhymes with bull/full
butch - first bit rhymes with ‘book’ but with a ‘ch’ sound at the end instead of a hard ‘k’
Mary - mare-ee
Pitta - Pit-ah
Hour - rhymes with our & cower

Pool rhymes with tool or cool. Pull with bull or cull.

Pull rhymes with bull here, but not with cull.

Cull rhymes with dull.