I found 25. Are there any more?
must-ARD
n-ERD
h-EARD
b-IRD
w-ORD
c-URD
inf-ERRED
st-IRRED
w-HIRRED
sl-URRED
mast-ERED
inj-URED
maj-ORED
anc-HORED
col-OURED
ans-WERED
sug-ARED
mart-YRED
beleag-UERED
blackg-UARD
cupb-OARD
liq-UORED
elix-IRED
m-YRRHED
Arguably, g-RRED, made a sound of threat or isappointment.
TLTE - I think I missed mit-RED.
Papa, ooma mow mow
How about murmured (ends -URED, but not quite pronounced the same as injured
(some items in your list are probably debatably duplicates depending on dialect. Anchored and majored are pretty similar to me - I think I count the H in Anchor as part of the ‘Ank’ initial sound)
They mostly do for me. They all have the same “urd” as in “turd” apart from
Mastered (“tud” on the end)
Blackguard (“gad” on the end)
But both of those are probably just regional pronunciation differences
Similarly, the “h” in “whirred” goes with the digraph “wh.” It would be like separating “third” into t+hird.
Agreed, unless you’re rolling the double R, but if you are, it’s probably the same as stirred
shep-HERD was the only one to come to mind without help.
I used the Moby Pronunciator file I downloaded years ago for a different project and a short Python script I wrote to find two more. Unfortunately MP doesn’t generally include past tenses, so there may be others.
f-YRD (English militia before the Norman conquest, pronounced “furd” according to MP)
flanc-HARD (a piece of armor on the flank of a war horse, pronounced “flankurd” according to MP.)
Lyn-YRD Skyn-YRD
They’re all spelled differently because there’s no schwa in the standard English alphabet. And English is spelled more historically than phonetically.
I’m from Manhattan, and those are not all pronounced the same to me.
That may be so, but if you look them all up in any dictionary, all will be represented as /erd/ in the phonetic pronouncer.
Meanwhile, you can keep on saying “water” as “whoa-tah”, and “father” as “faw-ddah” and the rest of us will keep on making fun of you.
Um, I’m also from Manhattan and no one pronounces water or father like that. I have literally no idea what you mean.