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Apparently, the vowel in ur- is pronounced like fur in American English.

In UK, it's like tour or fur.

Just for the sake of non-native speakers like me... My first idea was "your-technical debt" :)

Edit source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-



https://www.etymonline.com/word/ur-

A German prefix, so my guess would be however you would pronounce "oor" as in "boor" but not "oor" as in "floor" :)


English has enormous variation in pronunciation, but I think (drawing from knowledge of German, more than of English) it’s more like “oer” in “boer” (/bʊər/ , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boer), with a somewhat shortened “oe”.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-, says it’s

  - (UK) IPA(key): /ʊə/, /ɜː/
  - (US) IPA(key): /ɝ/
So it seems that is one of the UK ways to pronounce it.


The font I'm seeing in the mono is not making this obvious: The US version has a hook on the right side. It might show up better in proportional font. /ɝ/ That hook is indicating that the vowel is rhotic aka "r-colored".


It took me a moment to process the title as Ur is Hungarian for "sir" or "lord".




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