From The Hot Word:

[Jonathan Lighter]

They're absolutely identical for me.

JL

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:

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> On 8/14/2012 9:25 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> > http://hotword.dictionary.com/lojban/
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> > '... “you’re” and “your” sound identical ...'
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> > Is this true of any speaker here? I use "yure" and "yore," resp.
> > Though a lot of other speakers also use this pattern or its r-less
> > variants, there are also those who, annoyingly :-), use "yore" and
> > "yure," resp. But, I haven't noticed that the two fall together for
> > any speakers. Surely, there *are* speakers of whom THW's claim is
> > true, else he wouldn't have made it. But, his careless assumption that
> > he's describing the standard, hence, no need to point out the
> > direction of the assimilation, bites the big one.
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> > A commentater, "Dicky," writes,
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> > "BTW ..., “you’re” and “your” are not supposed to be pronounced the
> > same (except maybe in the southern U.S.A.). “You’re” should be
> > pronounced ‘yu•err’ and “your” pronounced ‘yorr.’ The word “they’re”
> > is pronounced ‘thay•err’ and “there” pronounced ‘thær.’ If we would
> > pronounce the words properly, maybe more people would get the spelling
> > correct."
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> I guess I'd tend to pronounce these like Wilson Gray, "you're" /jUr/,
> "your" /jOr/ or so when they're stressed. But unstressed I guess I'd
> usually pronounce them the same, /j at r/.
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> -- Doug Wilson
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