# US Pronunciation of Warrior - Woy-er or Worrier

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 15, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-pronunciation-of-warrior-woy-er-or-worrier/411885 "2007-07-15T20:57:34Z")\
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[QUOTE=Loach]  
A day late and a link short. see post 15  
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Curses. Foiled by the dreaded unmarked (and unclicked) YouTube link once again, I am.

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WAH-ree-er (although most of my friends say WUH-ree-ur)

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\*\*US Pronunciation of Warrior - Woy-er or Worrier \*\*

We never really got back to the _worrier_ part. Around here, _worry_ rhymes with _furry_ and _hurry_. _Worrier_ sounds like _hurrier_, like in the Pennsylvania Dutch saying, “The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”

A while back, one of our members said she was a _Worrier Princess_.😃

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**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-pronunciation-of-warrior-woy-er-or-worrier/411885/44 "2007-07-16T20:46:09Z")

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[QUOTE=Loach]  
The [last word on the subject.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZCjcFBBJU) This thread can now be closed. 😃  
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But does this mean we have to say “play-aaaaaaay”?

And . . . ahem . . . every single Clevelander I’ve ever known says “war” and “wore” as homonyms (rhyming with “gore”).

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Born and raised in the SF Bay Area. WORE-Yer.

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**Post date:** [July 16, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-pronunciation-of-warrior-woy-er-or-worrier/411885/46 "2007-07-16T22:16:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Sunshine and Smiles]  
Well, I for one say “war-ee-or”.  
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Same here, like “worrier” except the first syllable is like “war”. I grew up in Southern California, in case anyone wants to turn this into a dialect survey.

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