the proper one
2007-05-10 22:56:45 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
yes i was brought up they teached me to say as 'hour'...but lately i ear lots of people say as R and confuse me
2007-05-10 23:15:32 · update #1
ciao aisha 68....
2007-05-10 23:16:32 · update #2
i am not english...at school they told me to say as hour....but now you are telling me there s a lot of different accent...so i would say the standard is same sound as 'hour' right?
2007-05-11 02:10:11 · update #3
It depends which dialect you wish to emulate. I would say oww-wer. A broad Geordie might say oww-wah. Which incidently is also our word for 'over'. In Geordie, you would say 'wor' for 'our'. sorry if I'm confusing you. I'll use them in a sentence.
Ah seen wor Geordie ower the watter.
means
I saw our (blood relative - usually) George over the water ... in Sunderland 'ower the watter' means on the other side of the city as we are cut in two by the river.
I've slightly gone off subject, haven't I but just to finish. There's no such word as 'teached', you should use 'taught' (pronounced .. tort)
Hope I have actually helped and not deepened your confusion even further.
2007-05-11 00:25:23 · answer #1 · answered by elflaeda 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Let me guess? You are in London!
As a small child I had to adjust to changing the "R" sound to "our" -- i.e. to rhyme with flower, power, shower, which is the way my parents pronounced it and which I was sure was correct. In fact, "hour" is the standard pronounciation. But I remember being so anxious about getting it right that when they taught us the Lord's Prayer at school, after which the rest of the class said "Amen", I would say "Our men". It was years before I sorted it out.
2007-05-11 00:05:56 · answer #2 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends where you're from and what kind of school you went to (if you're a native speaker anyway!). I wish people would stop describing variant pronunciations as "wrong" or "mispronounced". They're just different.
If you pronounce it like "hour", that's fine. If your pronounce it like "are" that's also perfectly fine.
2007-05-11 00:03:23 · answer #3 · answered by garik 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In Britain we generally say "our" the same as "hour" - almost like "are", but with a slight wobble which makes it closer to "ow-uh".
In the USA it might be different.
Whatever you are taught in school about how to pronounce any word in English, if it is taught by non-native speakers you will find some surprises when you eventually go to visit or live in a country which is English-speaking. And if you visit different English-speaking countries (maybe Britain, USA, Australia, Jamaica, etc) you will find very different ways of pronouncing some common words.
So never get too worried about having the "correct" way to say words in English!
2017-02-02 05:39:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be pronounced the same as the word "hour". But today it is usually pronounced "are".
2007-05-10 23:02:23 · answer #5 · answered by Northstar 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is pronounced the same as hour. Although most people mispronounce it 'are'
2007-05-10 23:02:07 · answer #6 · answered by Stephman01 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
You pronounce it like '''hour''
2007-05-11 00:00:04 · answer #7 · answered by Once Upon a Dreamღ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HOUR
not
are
or
ore
HOUR
is the right pronunciation
2007-05-10 23:07:53 · answer #8 · answered by . 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If you're posh, it's pronounced the same as "are"
If you're Northern it rhymes with "power"
2007-05-10 23:00:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
ah-wr
not ar
2007-05-10 23:04:09 · answer #10 · answered by bottomburps 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋