bourbon

Hi,

“Anything we can do for you, Mr. Richards? You’ll have a private suite on the ninth floor, and meal requests will be filled within reason.”

“A good bottle of bourbon. And a telephone so I can talk to my w—”

“Ah, no, I’m sorry, Mr. Richards. The bourbon we can do. But once you sign this release form”—he pushed it over to Richards along with a pen—“you’re incommunicado until Tuesday. Would you care to reconsider the girl?”

(Stephen King, The Running Man)

Does the first syllable of “bourbon” rhyme with “fur” or “poor” or “pour” in this context?

Thanks!

It rhymes with fur in American English.

I don't see why it would rhyme with anything other than "fur."

You can listen to a whole list of regional pronunciations of BOURBON if you look it up in the WR dictiionary. 👁 Smile :)

For the whiskey, it's always thoroughly anglicized, with fur, not like the dynasty, which can have a French-like pronunciation.

entangledbank said:

For the whiskey, it's always thoroughly anglicized, with fur, not like the dynasty, which can have a French-like pronunciation.

Or the biscuit. Bore- or Booer - (never Bur).


The Bourbon biscuit (pronounced /ˈbʊərbən/[1] or /ˈbɔːbən/[2]) is a sandwich biscuit consisting of two thin rectangular dark chocolate-flavoured biscuits with a chocolate buttercream filling.
Bourbon biscuit - Wikipedia