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"tour" pronounced "tore" instead of "toor"

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The first time I ever heard anyone say "tore" when they mean "tour", which I am used to hearing as "toor", was in the movie "Tin Cup" when a sports announcer pronounces it that way. Β  Since then, I have heard it fairly often in the media.


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Yes. That's the pronunciation I first learned, in a small town in New York, then changed it when I started to learn French in fourth grade.


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Websters gives several pronunciations, including reference to the one with two syllables I was about to mention: too-er.
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They all sound fine to me.


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This may be a north-south division. Β  I first started drinking Coors beer in Oklahoma. Β  When I moved to Kansas, I found more Cores than Coors.

 

There's another highly specific pronunciation of tour: Β  Tower, as in Eiffel. Β  Bus drivers refer to their morning and evening shifts as Towers.... but the overnight shift is the Night Train, not the Night Tower.


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As a British English-speaker, I find this interesting. Β  To me, there is no difference in pronunciation between tore and toor! Β  (To give an example of actual words, in British English the words more and moor are pronounced the same.) Β  In Britain, we pronounce tour pretty much as the French tour (as in Tour Eiffel) or, as has also been mentioned, as too-er (but as one syllable, if that makes sense). Β 


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