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[Bryson]

Did I miss the memo?
I have noticed lately that people are pronouncing the word 'Tour' like 'Tor'. I've always pronounced it as, 'Toor'.

[kats]

Just like whore...

[ktownson]

Down round these ways we pronounced it rhyming with "sewer." Length of the first syllable depends on just how far south you are.

[amorris]

Ive always noticed that people who are on "tour" say tor. people you say tour from their hometown say tewer.

[PRobb]

Regional
How do you pronounce "forest"?

If you come from the upper midwest, "Mary", "marry" and "merry" are homonyms.

[Steve Hudson]

PRobb wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 10:36

Regional How do you pronounce "forest"?

Farst.

[Barry Hufker]

"Tour" should be pronounced to rhyme with "hour"...

Just as "through," "thought" and "tough" should all rhyme...

[theo mack]

I'm from central New York.
It's crazy how many dialects are in such a small area.

I've always pronounced it to-ur, like sewer. But friends from North Syracuse say "tore" one syllable.  Like the actor/wrestler in the old Ed Wood horror movies.

Then in East Syracuse it's "ter", sounds like fur. That's the strangest one I think.

I'm sticking with tour like sewer.

[rollmottle]

Here's a mnemonic to remember how to pronounce tour properly: When on tour, your van will smell like a sewer.

[PRobb]

rollmottle wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 12:05

Here's a mnemonic to remember how to pronounce tour properly: When on tour, your van will smell like a sewer.

I say "tor". One syllable.
Rhymes with "whore".
Which has mnemonic possibilities of it's own.

[Careful Collapse]

Quote:

If you come from the upper midwest, "Mary", "marry" and "merry" are homonyms.

*wonders, in a thick Wisconsin-accent inner monologue, how they're supposed to be pronounced...*

[PRobb]

Careful Collapse wrote on Thu, 19 March 2009 16:26

Quote: If you come from the upper midwest, "Mary", "marry" and "merry" are homonyms. *wonders, in a thick Wisconsin-accent inner monologue, how they're supposed to be pronounced...*

     

[wwittman]

That's just regional accent diffs

neither is 'correct'

on the other hand, however you pronounce TOUR, thats the way it should sound in TOURNAMENT

drives me batty when I hear tv announcers say "TERNament"

same thing with "Sem-ih-final"... it's Sem - EE- final". Latin is inflexible on this point.

Sem-EE, not sem-ih, sem-uh, or sem-eye

[Groovr]

Barry Hufker wrote on Fri, 20 March 2009 02:51

"Tour" should be pronounced to rhyme with "hour"... Just as "through," "thought" and "tough" should all rhyme...

Heh...

I thought I should tough it out and see things through.

"I thuffed I should tuff it out and see things thruff."

I like it

[jetbase]

Fortunately Australians don't have accents. It avoids confusion. I don't know why the rest of the world doesn't follow suit.