Query: Can "yours" rhyme dialectally with "purse"?

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 14, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:

> Both, i.e., is there any U.S. dialect in which "yours" can be pronounced to rhyme with "purse"?
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> Gerald Cohen

Not yurse, it appears.  (or mine)

LH


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> On Friday, February 14, 2014 10:33 AM Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> Is your issue with the vowel sound, or the ending?
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> DanG
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> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:04 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:
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>> Subject:      Query: Can "yours" rhyme dialectally with "purse"?
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>> A colleague told me today of a country-music song he heard in which
>> "yours" rhymes with "purse", and he wonders whether such a feature exists
>> dialectally in English. Or is it an artificial creation of the songwriter?
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>> The song is about a woman at a bar who has to leave at closing time. She
>> forgets her purse
>> and then comes back looking for it.  The woman sings:
>> "Ah think ah left my purse,"
>> and the bartender sings in response:
>> "Ah think it's yurse."
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>> Is anyone familiar with this feature?
>>
>> Gerald Cohen
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