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[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Let me start by saying death to America. With that out of the way, that would be pronounced like floor, in American English ou and long o are different sounds.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I’m not aware of an accent where they would be pronounced the same tbh.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Flour -> Flower

Flor -> Floor

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

From an etymology standpoint, flower=flour.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Wait, in British English is the ou in colour or favour not the same as the o in lore or voracious?

Do they pronounce it like the ou in house?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Respectively, those words would be /kʌlə(r)/, /fleɪvə(r)/, /lɔː(r)/, /vəreɪʃəs/, /haʊs/. Sometimes “voracious” has the same first vowel as “lore”, but usually it gets a schwa. AFAIK “flavour” and “colour” always have schwa in the second syllable. All the words have roughly the same variations in pronunciation in both the UK and US.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I don't know how I got so in my head that I convinced myself that they don't use schwas in American accents to honestly

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Maybe because in American accents, most of the schwas are R-colo(u)red or literally a syllabic /r/, while in most British accents they are plain schwas or schwa with an /r/ inserted after if the next sound is a vowel as in Panda-r-Express.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

That's it. That's the poust.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

mfers dropping the u in everything else, what flor not good enough for you??? catgirl-hiss

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

The spelling of flower should also be flor.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

okay i'm switching to logograms

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

The horrour of Br*tish spelling

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

American spelling is 99.9% as insane tbf

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

america too big for this shit. Is it water or wutter or wartur or wahder??

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Flar. Get it right.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Eye needed flower buy the see, left it in the son, n eight sum of it with meet and tee.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

*creatour

fucking sick of Amerikan spelling

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