How do you pronounce the word "tour"?

too’r

^yes.

too-er

Rhymes with “lure”

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@Sunny2 Great way to describe that pronunciation thank you.

@thorninmud Does that rhyme with door and more? Or more with “purr”?

@fremen_warrior The way that guy pronounces tour sounds like an Asian that doesn’t speak much English?!?! Is it just me?? lol

Tooo-wor.

@deni Neither. Rhymes with “doer” (as in” the doer of the deed”), but more monosyllabic.

I say ture.

I agree with thorninmud. Now I see the allure of a tour. It was pure fun.

Rhymes with cure, lure, pure, and moo-er.

Not sure what it rhymes with, but it certainly doesn’t rhyme with Uberlin!

(I just felt like linking this song here someplace today ;-)

@thorninmud So the same as @Sunny2 said, like too’r?

Yep, that’s about right

So how does your boyfriend say it?

In English, I’m pretty sure I pronounce it with a diphthong.
In French, the way the Métropolitains say it, a close back rounded vowel.
@deni, I’ve lived up and down the East Coast of the U.S. and I’ve never heard a native speaker pronounce “tour” anywhere near “tore” !
Language sure is funny.

Too-er.

Tour does not rhyme with door or roar or oar.

It does rhyme with lure and pure.

I pronounce it your way @deni: rhymes with door.

No one’s said anything about it to me, but some have given me a ribbing of how I say “tourist” “torist”. Also oyster. oischur. I’m too American to pronounce the t’s in “butter”.

Loo Er – lure
Too Er – tour
Poo Er – someone who takes shits

Two – er

@bookish1 Holy shit this is mindblowing! Well, I’m from Pittsburgh, PA and the “accent” there is pretty distinct. I never thought I had too much of it, however people will often point out that they can tell where I’m from. I’m not a total Yinzer like some Pittsburghers BUT there is something about the pronunciation of ou’s and o’s and a’s in general that is pretty specific to western PA, and maybe a few other small pockets, I think. Kinda like pop. So that probably explains it.

@fundevogel Interesting! Where are you froM?

Nyarlathotep.

But nah, it rhymes with door.

Tore, tour, door, lure, poor – all rhyme.

How the hell are you people turning “tour” into a bisyllabic word?

Tour and tore are homophones in my pronunciation.

Haha I’m confused about the word ’‘lure’’. Maybe it’s just the way I pronounce it…but I say loo-er, except I don’t say door or tour like lure. Hmm…

You “loo-er” your victims to the oubliette in which they will await their demise?

yup. guess I’m sayin it rong lol

@Seek_Kolinahr THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I SAID TO HIM THE FIRST TIME. I was like, what the hell word are you trying to say? It’s one syllable!!!!! The U is not before the O!!!!

boo erns

The same as Mick Jagger does ohnonotagainimgettingtoooldforthis

I agree with @Sunny2.

Actually, if I really think about it, I pronounce “tour” as I pronounce “sure” (assuming you don’t pronounce “sure” as if it is “shore”). With only one syllable, but it doesn’t rhyme with “door”.

Tore or Tor

I never thought of this before, but I say tour as in “door” but tourist as “sure-ist.”

@SadieMartinPaul You raise an interesting point… does anyone pronounce “tourist” as “doorist”? If not, perhaps this is the perfect comparison: I pronounce “tour” as the first syllable of “tourist”. :)

@deni I grew up in Florida, no specificly regional pronunciations there I know of. I really don’t know why I say somethings the way I do.

approximate IPA: /tuər/, rhymes with “sewer”.

I say it the way they sing it here .

Since it’s spelled like sour, I pronounce it like sour with a t.
E.g., I’ve got major munchies, so let’s go to the Leaning Tour of Pizza! ;-p

lol, great example @Brian1946. Munchies, yes

@thorninmud He pronounces it like you and @Sunny2 and most others on this thread. too-er.

Too-er

Like saying Two Were as one word.

Rhymes with boor, lure, moor, poor, and your, to name but a few[r].

@Pisces In my head I heard all those with a Scottish accent. But I’m not sure if you have one of those.

I say tour so it rhymes with pour, more, soar.

Australians tend to say too-er.

Tore.

According to webster, there are two ways to pronounce it. This is the way I do (audio)

1tour noun \ˈtu̇r, 1 is also ˈtau̇(-ə)r\ (link to webster)

Two-er.

@deni My dad’s from Pittsburgh and he also pronounces it two-er, I think. Or maybe a bit more monosyllabic, like “toor”.

Too-er

I’ve always said it like “lure.”

Here’s a rough count:
“too-er”.....17
“tore”........5
@bookish1 @deni I’m from the East Coast too (Boston) and I think that most people say “tore”. “Tore” definitely fits the Boston accent more. I’ll have to keep an ear out for the next few times I hear it.

@dxs I think that at least most people from where I’m from, western PA, say “tore” also. That is why I never even thought of it before—I didn’t even realize there was variation! Now, every time I hear someone say it, they say “too-er”! I’m like WHAT’D YOU JUST SAY? I DON’T KNOW THAT WORD. Except now I do because that’s how everyone pronounces it here.

Tour, rhymes with poor.

Western NY – sounds like poor or cure.
The same way as the theme song for Gilligan’s Island”:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0 . Listen at seconds 0:18 to 0:20

Clearly that is the correct way! ;-)

^ That’s clearly an Argument from Theme-Song Authority fallacy.

Ugh! I screwed up the link.
Here it is. Gilligan’s Island . Listen between seconds 0:18 and 0:20

2er.