How do you pronounce turmeric?

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TER-muh-rik?

CHOOM-rik?

Demented and Mary, apologies about the homophones comment. I thought I'd covered myself with the 'some English dialects' caveat, meaning dialects spoken in England, as opposed to dialects in Scotland (or anywhere else in the English speaking world, come to think of it). I am sorry if my comment offended. I'm not even English, but do teach phonics in England. My familiarity with Scottish dialects is limited and I'd be really interested in examples where -ir / -er / -ur are not homophones.

I'm trying to work out in what accent ir/ur/er aren't homophones.

Scottish. That's been pointed out at least twice on this thread. I'm not Scottish but was aware of this. It's the 'er' that sounds different, I think. This may be the case in other accents too - Irish and Northern Irish ones maybe?

Two-mur-ric

Cant really compare it to Tuesday because surely it's the e that changes the u sound to oo like cue. I used to say choomeric as that's what I'd heard but now say tur me ric now I know how it's spelled. I get that in some accents some letters and sounds sound the same but surely when writing it you'd still use the correct letter than choose a different one because it happens to sound the same so still don't understand people writing ter rather than tur. I work in a primary 1 class and often think phonics lessons must be a bit odd in accents where so many things sound the same when I read these threads 😆

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Tue and Due can be pronounced Choo

But Tur and Dur cannot!!!

Ter-mer-ick

I only started hearing Toomerick / Choomerick in recent years.

I've always thought the 'tyoomerik' pronunciation came about as people didn't know how to spell the word. Hence the missing 'r' 🤷🏻‍♀️

I say 'tur-meh-rik'.

I think a lot of the confusion is from people not realising that the spelling is tuRmeric, not tumeric.

Tur -mer - ick.
How can it be choo-merick, or too-merick, it's got an R in it.

Don't start me on people who pronounce quarter as corter, or drawing as draw-ring. Gah!

Turm rick

Choo-mer-ik

Tue and Due can be pronounced Choo

They often are, but it's a result of lazy pronunciation that's become the norm.

Those saying Choomerick might think it is spelled Tuemeric.

It's not, it's TURmeric!

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Term-er-ick

Why? Scottish accents are the best.

Same. I blame John Torode.

/ˈtɜːmərɪk/ is given by Cambridge dictionaries.

I've always found the "choo" pronunciation in words fascinating and wondered how it happens. I think it's because of the /t/ followed immediately by the /j/ which, when said quickly, becomes almost a "ch" sound.

Term-er-ick, never heard it pronounced any other way - is it regional? I’m in the SE

Choo - mer - Ik

Chew mer ik

I used to say Tue-meric because I didn't realise there was an 'r' in it. Then I realised there was an 'r' so I changed to Tur-meric, with the tur being like the beginning of turn.

People are saying Scottish but not explaining the difference. I don't get it!

In most, if not all, Scottish English variants (and others) R is always pronounced wherever it is in a word. It's called a rhotic accent. In much of the rest of the UK the accent is non-rhotic which means that R after a vowel but before a consonant is generally not pronounced.
So, in my non-rhotic accent I don't pronounce the first R in turmeric, but I do pronounce the second one as it's between 2 vowels. Rhotic accents pronounce both.