To tell DH he is pronouncing DD’s name wrong.

[DuchessOfNorfolk]

DD is mainly known as a shortening of her name. Occasionally we call her the full versio. However I have noticed DH pronounces it in a different way to how I have ever heard it pronounced. I assumed there was just one pronunciation of it. I’m wondering if it would be reasonable to point it out? Or do I just live with it.

Yes it rhymes but someone said paw rhymes with claw but the others don't. In my accent they all do.

My accent is generic southern.

poo-uh(poor), p-oh(pore/pour), and p-aww(paw)

The middle one is po/Poe type pronunciation.

You and your bloody disappearing r's Middle

Yes Middleclass Edgar Allen Poe's pores sounds exactly the same to me.
the oh/aw difference is where they are produced in the mouth, so pore (oh) is formed at the front of the mouth with rounded lips. the aw sound in paw/claw is further back, with a wider open mouth.
accents are interesting! my own children who are also welsh, but have an southerner english dad pronounce poor differently to me. so for them poor/pore/pour are all the same. similarly, i would pronounce sure with 2 syllables. shoo-uh. they say shore.

ha! sleeping i'm with middle on the R situation. R's only get pronounced at the beginning of words, or preceeding vowels....unless i'm speaking welsh, when i can roll them with the best of you, but i can't do it when I speak english, because it feels wrong!

How about I had a row with my husband about how to row the boat?
The first one is more ra sound to rhyme quirk wow, the latter rhymes with go

TheOriginalEmu I can't take the pee like I can with middle though haha. Or should that be r not p haha

row the boat is r-oh-w.
row with my husband is r-uh-w like now/cow/
wow is w-ah-w.

Realised wow, now, how, cow have a c-eh-w sound

SleepingStandingUp I just say it all the same plus I can spell them all 😂

SleepingStandingUp you and I prouncounce them all the same. Unless you’re drunk and revert back to your natural accent 😂

TheOriginalEmu but it you have a row it’s like now. It’s you’re standing in a row it’s like toe

I go a bit Northern when I'm drunk hahaha, too many years at Uni up North. That's why I like cheese and gravy on my chips and brown sauce on my sausage (not a euphemism Midland you dirty old woman)

SleepingStandingUp sure, sure.

I put caviar and white truffle shavings on my sausages and my chips preferably drowned in bordelaise and epoisses to top.

I don't actually know what epoisses is/are lol

You need too try chips, cheese and gravy altogether. And now I'm hungry.

Wolfie, Simon. Can you say "tea or coffee"?
OK that OR sound in the middle, put a letter l in front of it. that's "lore", a different word from "law".
Saves a lot of confusion if southerners learn this, even though they think it is cruelty to children to learn to pronounce paw, poor and pour differently.

This is fatuous nonsense.

I can say "or". I can put an l sound in front of it. The resulting word (lore) will sound the same as law in my accent. I pronounce all three words (paw, poor and pour) the same.

This is not incorrect. No-one's accent is incorrect.

On what possible basis the you claiming that your Scottish pronunciation of English is more correct than my English pronunciation of English? Who made you the Accent Police?

Me! I made me the Accent Police! It’s AIBU after all!

Corfee
WTAF?
Not in the UK.

SleepingStandingUp I like chips and gravy and I like poutine so I’m sure I’d like chips, cheese and gravy.

If I say "tea or coffee" it sounds like "teeyore koffee", unless I make a particular point of breaking the words up, which would make me sound stilted.

liz70 I suggested the tea or coffee thing to try to let people see that it is possible to say a soft "r" sound at the end of the word "pour".
If you say "teeyore" you can say "tea pour", so you can say "pour". However as many PPs have pointed out, they don't want to say pour. They are happy just saying paw for three differently pronounced words. That's fine.

I don't like the way people say lah-tay for latte.

@MikeUniformMike

How do you say 'latte' then?

@MrsSarahSiddons

When I say "tea or coffee" I still don't pronounce the R. It's "tea awh coffee".