Also, does DOOr rhyme sour?
In my early (US) education, I learned to pronounce the vowel sound of dour like the oo in goose: DOOr. This is the only pronunciation given in the OED. … I hesitate to label DOWr “US pronunciation.” Many US speakers do make dour rhyme with sour, but many others pronounce dour as the English and Scots do.
Also question is, how do you pronounce defense?
A: The usual pronunciation of “defense” is duh-FENSE, except in sports terminology, where it’s generally pronounced DEE-fense.
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Why is DOOr pronounced?
3 Answers. Because door is one of those words that have two O’s because people thought that would make the O sound longer. … In Old English the word was spelled dor with a long O. There was no character to write that kind of long O, so they figured the double O would make people hold the duration longer.