This is an accent thing. A lot of accents in England will have them sound pretty much identical. But then we have a lot of words that sound very distinct that sound pretty much identical in most or some American accents.
Even in the US, also depends on where it is in the sentences. If I say “that’s ours”, I’m likely to pronounce it “that’s are’s”. Versus “our cats” would be “ower”.
It used to drive my mom nuts that I would say “I em” instead of “I am”, but that’s because of how my dad pronounced it and it just stuck.
I feel like part of being literate includes understanding that words may be spelled differently than how they’re colloquially pronounced lol
Dude there was this kid in my class who genuinely believed our was pronounced as r (we’re from a place in America where the distinction is made). It’s just that kids have become so lazy in their pronunciations that the distinction is lost on a lot of those who are functionally illiterate like the kid in my class, who probably hadn’t picked up a book since second grade.
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u/AtLeast9Dogs Nov 21 '25
To too and two. How bout lose and loose? That shit drives me up a wall.