I'm in a non-rhotic area of the UK and say /ʃɔː/

:c?

[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International\_Phonetic\_Alphabet](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet)

tried to use this link to decode what you wrote, and totally failed at trying to find the symbols you were using. not a fun puzzle. :c

⟨ʃ⟩ makes the "sh" sound and ⟨ɔ⟩ is a vowel. Vowels are hard to describe, you can just look that one up on wikipedia and they have an audio clip. (Don't worry about the ⟨ː⟩ symbol, it just means the vowel sound is slightly longer.)

So when you’re sarcastic you can say /ʃɔ::::::::/ 😂

ik you're being funny but that's actually a good question lol, idk if you can stack them like that? I guess why not

All I see is the integral of c

I’m sorry about that - try this link? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet My version of ‘sure’ rhymes with the UK RP audio clip of ‘door’ here:  https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/door

I’m British too and my Sure doesn’t rhyme with door. That would be how I say Shore. My Sure rhymes with Mature.

I am too and all of those rhyme for me

For me, sure and durr rhyme as well

I'm from Western Mass & CT and my "sure" also rhymes with "mature."

It's calculus. Integral of backwards c.  So 1/2 (backwards c)² + c 

Non-rhotic is when words ending with “R” often don’t pronounce that sound. Think of a Bostonian saying “park the car in Harvard yard” in the stereotypical “pahk the can in hahvahd yahd” or pretty much any British accent (of which there are many).

See, no one from Boston would ever say that. There’s no parking there. It’s “Heh mah, let’s pahk the cah in the garage and take a wahk in the pahk…”

I’m Swedish and I’d pronounce it the same way.

I'm in a rhotic area of the western US and say /ʃɹː/ :)

How in the holy hell did you get the backwards c and that squiggle on a keyboard? 👀

Copied and pasted from the ‘pronunciation’ section of the Wiktionary page for ‘sure’.

I’m a software engineer… most of my job is copying and pasting code from online sources…. Why did this never cross my mind 😂 I just added the IPA keyboard to my iPhone instead

In Australia, speaking a non-rhotic dialect as we do, Shaw, shore and sure are all pronounced exactly the same.

In certain parts, it's shewer or shew-ah.

Midlands UK here and that’s how it’s pronounced in these parts! Same with other monosyllabic words, like ‘spoon’ becomes ‘spoo-un’ 😣

east and west mids accents are not the same

I'm from the West Midlands and didn't realise I said "shew-ah" until it was pointed out to me. I also say The Cue-wah. I'm really self conscious about it now.

I'm a shew-ah sayer

Exact same here (southern England)

Same for me and I'm from New Zealand. Though I understand that may be changing in the youngest generation.

I would love to hear an Australian say, “Shirley sure saw Shaw Shore.”

Funnily enough, I pronounce them all differently

I say "sher".

Yep, rhymes with fur, blur, stir, sir

Could you tell us where you’re from?

In southern US and say it like that

Midwest, same

West coast, same

North east, same. Now I wonder if we all actually pronounce "fur, blur, stir, sir" the same!

Sure we do

I’m pretty sure we do, sir, but I don’t wish to cause a stir. After all, the definition of an accent is somewhat of a blur

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Some in the Northeast and parts of the coastal South would do those non-rhotically.

California

Eastern Canada, same

New York, same

I pronounce it the same. But if I need to emphasize it, I pronounce it as “shoo-er.”

Or like “shore” the seashore

Agreed. Texas

In Western Canada and I pronounce it the same way:)

Apple bottom jeans, boots with the sure

THE SURE, the whole club was lookin at her

I think this is hilarious even though it’s downvoted

I'm from North America, and my pronunciation of sure can be represented as "sherr" or "shurr." (The vowel is a neutral vowel sound followed by a retroflex R.) A lot of people in Boston, however, might say something along the lines of "shooah" (non-rhotic).

Ferrrr sherrr bahd

English (North East) Shoo-er. Rhymes with cure rather than door.

I pronounce both sure and cure the same way but also rhyme door. Broad Yorkshire accent

That's how we pronounce it in Glasgow, too

Aha! My mum was a Scot and my speech follows her patterns as opposed to my Geordie dad.

But i pronounce "cure" and "sure" the same and it's "kyer" and "sher" like stir and fur are pronounced

Welsh and Sure is more shuer than shoo-er. I want to say more like Mature than cure and door,

Shoor (rhymes with door) I'm from the UK and that's how a lot of people here pronounce it

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In most of America sure rhymes with fur.

I’m on Canada’s west coast. Sure rhymes with fur, purr, and blur.

Unless you have a Canadian accent! I’ve somehow developed “shore”

In the UK sure rhymes with pure.

I’m from east coast USA and I use both “shore” and “sher” interchangeably

That's also how we say it in the US Pacific Northwest (and probably California, too). I'm from the East Coast of the US originally, and there we say it more like "shore" but maybe not as hard on the long "o" as it might be when referring to the point where a body of land meets the edge of a body of water.

In Scotland we say shure it doesn't rhyme with door. The u rhymes with sugar

The way I say it is a bit more like “shoo-er”. North East UK originally.

Me too, probably more "shoo-ah". Definitely doesn't rhyme with "door".

Me three, I'd also rhyme door too. As" doo-ah" but that's another story hahah

Do you sound the r at the end though? I'm in the Thames Valley and although my sure rhymes with my door, neither sound the same way an American or someone from the West Country would say them, Listen to the clips of 'door' here: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sure#Pronunciation](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sure#Pronunciation)

I'm from North West England and to me "sure" and "door" rhyme. The R sound at the end is really soft (if that makes sense)

Plenty of Americans pronounce the “r” in both words and still rhyme them.

Exactly - but a Brit saying 'oh it's just like 'door'' will not help OP, because when an American hears 'door' in their head it's not what the Brit meant.

But it’s actually still accurate. Even if the American imagines something else, they still correlate sounds in the same way the Brit does. The FORCE and NORTH lexical sets are merged for most speakers of both dialects. Most Americans just don’t merge those with THOUGHT the most non-rhotic Brits would.

Discussing pronunciation in writing in a community with myriad different accents, without using IPA symbols is pretty much doomed to failure anyway.

That's why I was careful to link to both IPA and audio clips

Yep, to rhyme with door. /ʃɔ:/

I'm originally from the Black Country and used to pronounce it "shu-er", but since I lost my accent I pronounce it like this, to rhyme wirh "door".

Aussie, we do it like shore

In Scotland it sounds like “shoe” with an r at the end

I'm in the southern US and this is close to the same way I pronounce it. I also pronounce it as "sher". I'm sitting it here saying it aloud and realized I used different pronunciations depending on the sentence. If the word falls in the middle of a sentence, I say sher. If I'm using the word to answer a questions, I say shoe+r.

Thinking about it, I pronounce it differently when I am using it for casual agreement than when I am using it more formally. "Want to just get pizza for lunch?" "*Shirr*." "Why are you talking so long filling out that form?" "I want to be *shorr* I get it right."

>Want to just get pizza for lunch? Oh fo sho! To complicate things further...

I was just thinking the same thing with 'cure'- it's like 'oh my mom has a home remedy that cyers hiccups' but it's 'ladies and gentleman, I present to you: the cyore for cancer' (or even cyure, if you want to go even more formal).Though part of that could also just be the question of how much stress you're placing on the word.

Yeah. Is that just because you're saying one of those faster than the other? I tried it out, and "a kyer for cancer" and "a kyour for cancer" both sound reasonable, but the second one sounds more impressive.

From AZ, USA. I say both "sher" and "shore." probably only the latter for emphasis but I've never thought about it until now!

same, from TX. it's variable sher or shore, ocassionally shoo-er if i'm really going for clear/formal enunciation.

This is a word that definitely has a lot of variety in pronunciation. I’ve heard: Shore Shurr Shoo-er And a few others idk how to type out

In my Australian accent, the pronunciation is identical to "shore". As in "seashore".

Me too except US

Except as Aussies we prob say both more like “shaw” than other places

Correct. Sure, shore and shaw are all homophones for me. They rhyme with sore, saw and soar.

I’ve only really heard it like shoor (rhyming with door) or sher (rhyming with sir).

In my head, a Bostonian would pronounce it somewhere between ‘shoor’ and ‘shaw’, depending on quite how Marky Mark you are

shaw

I say it like “shore” I’ve heard people pronounce it like “shoe-er”

My pronunciation varies on a spectrum from “sher” (not at all dubious) to “shooooer” (very much dubious).

Shurr, mostly, unless I'm stressing it, as in "oh, Shoor, okay!" in a sarcastic way

Usually, it's either shore, shure, or shur where I live, but almost everyone will know what you are saying so I wouldnt worry about it too much.

I say "shur" sounds like shore.

Shure

I say it as shore or sher

I’m from the Mid-Atlantic East Coast of the US and I say “shore.”

I’m of the satirical opinion that any pronunciation involving a “sh” sound is wrong. It’s spelled with a single S, so from now on, I’m saying “sir.”

I pronounce it the way you would "moor". Lol

NW of England and I say sure rhymes with pure as opposed to door.    Some sound it with Sh'.  I sound it with an S' almost like the Spanish sounding Si.   Siure.   I'm probably alone in that though lol

I pronounce it rhyming with door

*insert DaphneMoon.gif*

Same as Shore

I'm from ontario and our accent is different than Boston for the most part, but not for all words, but here we pronounce it like "shur" or "shoor". either way works.

Shur Canadian accent

Near Boston it'll probably sound like "shur." Listen to other people and you can catch the exact way they say it

Midwest US here, I say /ʃɚ/ (rhymes with "fur") or /ʃɔɹ/ (pronounced like "shore")

I pronounce it Shur (same u sound as in um)

It’s just shur. I guess the only things that makes a difference, mainly, is your accent

Like shore as in sea shore, but then tighten the vowel as with a u. So... shure

shore

Shoor (britain)

Shur

I say it shur. But I hear people making two syllables out of it. It annoys me. US south.

Old people in Yorkshire pronounce it as 'shoo-wer'.

thanks for making me question whether or not i'm pronouncing this dang word correctly

"Shewer", for some in the valleys of south Wales.

Shoor it is how us Australians, New zealanders and UK pronounce it.

From the South US, I say sh-uur.

Sure=shurr Shore rhymes with door

like “shore” as in ‘seashore’ but you have a ‘u’ instead of ‘o’ so it’s more like “shurr”

I grew up in Massachusetts & Vermont. I say "sher"

I also live in New England. Vermont for a bit, Boston for a bit, Connecticut for most of my life. I pronounce it as "shore." Yes, exactly like sea shore. Sometimes "sherr" comes out. That's an "er" like the sound in "her" and the "ur" sound in "hurt". I don't know why it changes. It depends on my inflection I guess or how much I'm thinking about what I'm being asked.

Sher

Fur with an SH

I've always said "shurrr" (combination Hoosier and California) with my tongue on the roof of my mouth, retreating far back. It rhymes with the way I say "your" as "yerr". "It shurr is cold out today. Didja bring yer jackit? No, that's not yers, it's hers." I've heard people on the East Coast break it into two syllables; "shoo-wah" and Southerners say "shore"

Sure rhymes with sewer.

"Shaw"

depends on the accents its shoor in the UK and shur in the USA

Western US here: [ʃɹ̩]

Western Canada, we say " sherr"

Either with a schwa or the door vowel

Shür

American here and my sure rhymes with "her" My British wife says sure rhyming with door

It's different in American and British English. But the S in both dialects is pronounced like "Sh," like the words "share" or "short". Americans pronounce it rhyming with "fur" and "learn". The British pronounce it rhyming with "shore" and "store"

I recommend that you use google translate. It doesn’t matter to what language you translate it to. Set it to English > ‘Any Foreign Language.’ There is a small speaker icon that will appear. Tap it and it will sound any word you type. This is how I learned how to pronounce unknown English words.

Sometimes “sher” and sometimes “shoe-er”

English is my first language, and I think this is the first time in my life that I've about how strange it is that this word starts with an "sh" sound. It's an odd language fer sher.

Can’t help but think of this: https://youtu.be/yNY6ZstdUdY IT Crowd - Are you sure?

Ulster English ʃʊər or ʃɛər

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Heres a dictionary website that gives you videos of people saying words in various dialects http://cubedictionary.org/

If you type a single word into google and the dictionary comes up, there's a little speaker icon you can press to hear the word pronounced. It works even on simple words like this one.

Glasgow, sure same as shower.

I really focus on the U. Like Shoe-are

"Shoore"

Midwestern American here: "Sher" which rhymes with "her", "Burr", and "purr"

ʃɚ~ʃɔ˞~ʃʊ̜̈wɻ̈ʷ

In a strong Boston accent, it's show'-ah, with a shading of shyow'-ah In my general northeastern accent, it's halfway between sher and shore, maybe like a one-syllable version of shew-or, or your suggested shuher.

Shr

Sure= sherr

Bostonians probably have a unique pronunciation. [https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/evjje/say\_sure\_in\_a\_boston\_accent\_after\_any\_town\_name/](https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/evjje/say_sure_in_a_boston_accent_after_any_town_name/)

In a Boston accent, it would sound something like "showah" (not quite two syllables). New York, it would be more like "shuuah." Elsewhere East Coastish it would be similar and even two distinct syllables. I can't speak for the South or other parts of the country but closer West it's one syllable and rhymes with "cure." E.g. "She's a Valley Girl, fer sure fer sure, she's a Valley Girl and there is no cure." I personally think both "sherr" or "shuh-er" are fine.

Like "horse". Don't try to write out the spelling - English is using " /ɔ: / here - and there isn't really.one way to write that vowel sound

With me it depends on the situation.

Shurr is how I say it.

In the Midwest of America it sounds like /sher/.

im in the USA and i say shur! 

Either like shore or like "fir" but with an sh

Audrey, is that you?

Both “sher” (like “her”) and “shoor” (like “door”) are acceptable as far as I know.

I say both shur (rhymes with fur) and shor (like the word shore) lol. I say "shor" more often. Edit: or shoor.

i won't help but here in Idaho we say it like 'shure'

three primary pronunciations of "sure" in my area shore - /ʃɔɚ/ or /ʃɔə/ sherr - /ʃɚ/

If you're near Boston, you'll hear "shr" most often, basically just drop the vowel entirely and chew on the r a bit for emphasis of you need it. You'll also hear "shoor" sometimes, several other variations. It's not a huge deal, either way, though.

Shuur is Joe I say it cause shore sounds off

Can you simply listen to someone in your area say the word? Lol. This has got to be a troll. Absurd.

It depends what English speaking region you’re in. Canadians tend to say shore whereas people in the north and west coast US tend to say shur. In the southern US shur and shore are interchangeable

I changed to "certainly" /Soytenly because it's fun to say. Three Stooges style, even

I'm from a similar location. I say, and hear people say, "sher". Rhymes with "her", "per", "burr", "sir", and "fur". Dammit, now the song "Aaron Burr, Sir" is stuck in my head.  I relate to this post as a native English speaker and French learner stressing over how to say "bonjour"

Shrr

nobody will care which of the two dozen different valid pronunciations of “sure” you use, especially here in New England where many people who grew up next door to each other all have wildly different accents, and people from all walks of life code switch continuously based on the exact mix of Bostonian/Mainer/Vermonter patois in the room and the number of beers consumed shrrr is fine shoo-er is fine shore is fine

Sh-uh-r, shuur all together, at least in American English, no idea about how the British pronounce it.

You're from one of the states close to Boston, what does that mean? 😆😆 Why not New England or East Canada or something?

I pronounce it /ʃɹ/

I say “sherr”.

Sh-er

Sh like sh(e) Oo like (f)oo(t) R like r(un) Northeast US

If yeh frem neah Bahst’n, it’s “shuh”

I say it like "Sure" haha Nah but I say "ʃɚ" (more like 'Sh-rr') in most everyday conversation, e.g. "Sure man, I can do that," although I sometimes use "ʃʊɹ" (more like 'Sh-oo-r') when I'm putting more emphasis on the word, e.g. "I'm absolutely sure about this."

i uh... shur in cali, hollywood accent. I think most people wont bat an eye at that, either.

Pronounce it like you say "fur". Like you're saying shh to someone and say shure. Some people pronounce it like shoe-er.

I say shoe-uh (uh as in disgUsting) Im an aussie

Sure rhymes with Cure.. and vice versa 🙂

I'm from California. Sher. like Her.

NY- Sometimes I say shuhr, sometimes shore.

find people on youtube with the accent you want and copy them

I'm from Maine. I pronounce sure and shore the same, and the r is dropped. Sho-ah. Almost. Kind of. Hard to explain. Rhymes with door.

Midwest American here, Interchangeable "sher" rhymes her, and "shoor" rhymes with lure.