? I can't imagine how saw/sore/soar could possibly be pronounced differently in the Queen's English.
In several regional accents they're different, sure (= 'Shaw' = 'shore'), and in Scotland they'd even have a different number of syllables, but in RP saw/sore/soar are identical.
Lmao. Canadian here. I also found this funny. Brits pronounce them all as "sar," I guess (everything I know about British accents, I learned from Harry Potter and Top Gear lol).
Surprisingly for many, there is no such thing as a British accent. As you travel through the UK the accents change often every few miles and anyone who knows UK accents can tell within a few miles just whereabouts they are. I don't include 'actors' accents, these are usually put on and are often not the original accents of the actors. When you talk about UK accents, it is not just English, Scottish, Welsh or Northern Irish accents, or even e.g. Isle of Man, Channel Island , Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands accents for these accents all have regional accents, but town to town accents, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, Bristol, Edinburgh etc etc...... every town throughout the UK (thousands) have a unique accent. For me I love travelling in the UK just to listen to the wonderful accents to be found.
They're not pronounced "sar". Americans (and presumably it's the same for many Canadians) have lots of sounds that are the same to them but distinct in many other accents. To a Brit and an Australian, "soar", "sore" and "saw" all rhyme with "oar", which doesn't sound the same as "are".
Because in most US dialects, "soar" and "sore" have a distinctly pronounced "r" sound at the end that "saw" lacks. Also, the vowel sound in "soar" and "sore" is more of an "oo," while "saw" is more of an "ah."
Think of "sore" and "soar" ending with an "oor" sound, distinctly pronouncing the "r," and then think of "saw" ending with "ah," with no "r" sound at all.
Centuries ago I had a Scots boyfriend who always laughed when I used the words poor, pour and paw. Said they all sounded the same and spent hours teaching me to say them 'properly'.
Yeah, took me a second to realise why it wasn't being accepted.
For the Yanks - we say "Sore" and Soar the same way you say "Saw". We tend not to pronounce the letter "R" if it's at the end of a word. e.g. for "Redder", Americans will say "Red-urr", really stressing the "er" at the end, whereas we say "red-duh".
They're definitely homophones in Britain though, as well as in most other non N. American English speaking countries.
Saw, sore, and soar are homophones in all non-rhotic accents of English (e.g. Received Pronunciation, Australian English, etc) so I agree it should be accepted as an alternate answer.
I don't think these words are homophones for everyone, even in UK people will pronounce many of these words differently, in south of UK 'mall' is pronounced with a long A as in TALL, but in the north of England e.g. it is mall as in pal. .... I'm sure that many of these words would be pronounced differently in areas of the USA just as they are here in Australia. This must be a difficult quiz for a non-English speaking person.
In my experience, mall is not a word in common use in the UK. As I understand it the word refers to what we would call a shopping centre. There is a street in London called Pall Mall which is pronounced with both words rhyming with pal or shall.
To me (from England), all four words you quote are pronounced the same way but even in the UK other regions pronounce words very differently so its hard to please everyone with this kind of quiz.
That was the only one I didn't get, and I pronounce them differently too. But I looked it up: ɡôrd (to rhyme with 'bored') and ɡo͝ord (to rhyme with 'toured') are both valid pronunciations.
I'm an American from the east coast and most people I've met say I have a general American accent without any regional affectations, and the only one of those words I pronounce differently is toured. I pronounce everything else like I would pronounce Ford.
You pronounce seat and Swede the same as each other, and sweet and suite? You pronounce bend and bent the same as each other, and banned and band? You pronounce whores the same as horse and hoarse? I honestly can't think for the life of me what accent would do that, but even if you do, the vast vast majority (not even just Americans, also most other native English speakers) of people don't speak like that.
We far outweigh the people of the US, so stop tailor-making your quizzes to cater to their linguistic style only. Put a disclaimer on your quizzes otherwise that states: you WILL NOT GET THIS if you don't speak/sound like an American.
Most of those 6.650 billion people don't speak English at all and so would not pronounce these words in any way. I got most of these and I am British. But if the quiz is based on any particular accent maybe there should be a disclaimer but most of them work in all accents I have heard.
Or...if you're not American, create your own quiz and fill it with whatever you want. Most of the people who create these quizzes are American but it doesn't have to be that way. Stop complaining and change what you don't like.
I was hopelessly stuck on Piece because I read it as "Pierce" and I was trying everything I could think of to get it until I realized what it actually said. /facepalm
Although I got the correct answer, I do not pronounce "horse" and "hoarse" the same way. For me "horse" rhymes with "arse," and "hoarse" rhymes with "source."
For maul, I roll the vowel sound so it sounds more like (m)awl. People in the Washington, DC talk like that and I picked it up. But then, in DC, wall sounds like wawl, so I guess that's still a homophone.
Never mind about all your accents. I use a baren regularly when making woodcuts or linocuts: Merriam-Webster define it as: "a pad of twisted cord covered with paper, cloth, and bamboo leaf with which a printmaker transmits pressure typically by rubbing to paper". It is pronounced the same as barren/baron.
A quiz like this is difficult to be accurate for a world-wide audience. There is no 'right' way of pronouncing these words. But perhaps the quiz should either specify the region from which the accent is derived, or allow other accent specific homophones as correct answers.
Personally, I disagree that "groan" and "grown" are homophones, and think that "fear" is a homophone of "fare". But different countries have different dialects I guess.
me in 2022: remembered suite no trouble but took forever to remember gourds existed, kept trying gaud despite knowing it was incorrect for over a minute
What happened to my English? Four fails. My household was build for that ode inn ceiling the sealing. What a sad song. Had bean a bit gored bout singing in the reign den...
In several regional accents they're different, sure (= 'Shaw' = 'shore'), and in Scotland they'd even have a different number of syllables, but in RP saw/sore/soar are identical.
I can't even think of a way to pronounce either differently
The chicken's so roar I can hear it roar!
Centuries ago I had a Scots boyfriend who always laughed when I used the words poor, pour and paw. Said they all sounded the same and spent hours teaching me to say them 'properly'.
your accent = the universal consensus
anything else = speech impediment
For the Yanks - we say "Sore" and Soar the same way you say "Saw". We tend not to pronounce the letter "R" if it's at the end of a word. e.g. for "Redder", Americans will say "Red-urr", really stressing the "er" at the end, whereas we say "red-duh".
They're definitely homophones in Britain though, as well as in most other non N. American English speaking countries.
Whole and hole sound totally different whenever I hear anyone say them. Close, but no seegar.
On the subject of ships you might as well say butt and boat are pronounced the same way.
"Nice boat."
"Me or my wife?"
The rest of the world: 6.650 billion people.
We far outweigh the people of the US, so stop tailor-making your quizzes to cater to their linguistic style only. Put a disclaimer on your quizzes otherwise that states: you WILL NOT GET THIS if you don't speak/sound like an American.
Can't wait for the updated quizzes!
They are what Raphael uses!
Gored and gourd are not homophones
Yes, they are.
me in 2022: remembered suite no trouble but took forever to remember gourds existed, kept trying gaud despite knowing it was incorrect for over a minute