The way people talk...

[Maeve_Mari]

Touchez.

So the ancient city in Babylon is pronounced "your" as well?

(I actually don't know how it's pronounced...)

I don't see a touche.

'ur' is still the your sound you hear in 'ur-reen.' As in, Fur-reen, Bur-reen, Murmur-reen.
Unless, Inq you're trying to say that you pronounce your 'elimination' as You-Are-reen.

It could be the southwest accent. Or not.

[mrbiggs]

I don't see a touche.

'ur' is still the your sound you hear in 'ur-reen.' As in, Fur-reen, Bur-reen, Murmur-reen.
Unless, Inq you're trying to say that you pronounce your 'elimination' as You-Are-reen.

It could be the southwest accent. Or not.

What?


I don't get like any of those pronunciations...you pronounce "urine" your reen? I pronounce it your rin.

[LordTofuDog-jnr]

The sound of "ur" seems to be changing quite a lot now.

[VorpalCat]

What ur you trying to say?

[Inquartata]

Touchez.

So the ancient city in Babylon is pronounced "your" as well?

(I actually don't know how it's pronounced...)

Into the Gorge of Eternal Peril with you, then!

No one really knows how it was pronounced, the language having been dead several thousand years and no pronunciation guides having been preserved. I would suggest "Oor", with the r rolled, but it's only speculation...and one that does not help to resolve the current pickle.

[Inquartata]

'ur' is still the your sound you hear in 'ur-reen.' As in, Fur-reen, Bur-reen, Murmur-reen.
Unless, Inq you're trying to say that you pronounce your 'elimination' as You-Are-reen.

Phonetically, i.e. breaking the letters up into their individual name-sounds, we get UR=you are. Using it as an independent phoneme, we get UR=your, or in this case you're. Either way it works as an abbreviation....

Isn't this fun?

[LordTofuDog-jnr]

It's as simple as

you = u

are = r

you are = you're
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you're = ur, u r