How do you pronounce the word: For

I was in an argument with someone who is dead set on how to pronounce it as fer. As in "Hey I got this fer you", but it's still spelled the same just because the condentation it's used it's pronounced different. So OT, how do you say the word for?

4

For....exactly how it's spelled.LJS9502_basic

Just plain 4.

Both ways. The accent of some of my words change depending on what I'm saying, how fast I'm saying it, etc.

For, four, fore.

All the same.

I've never even thought about it, but I do slip into fer on occasion. But I think I say 4 most of the time.

I do catch myself saying fer if i'm saying a sentence fast or something. But to literally think, it's fer but spelled for is really stupid. Just mispronunciation.

It's pronounced just like it's spelled.

I pronounce it DEEEEEEEEERP

It's pronounced rof

for. pronounced gwaw-naw-waw.

I thought everyone said it this way.

I say it "faw"

Lol i'm glad there are serious responses but glad with the dumb ones. It's a serious question due to someone stupid saying fer like it's normal. MickeyTheNinja

I say for like you're supposed tt say it: for. Who the heck says 'fer'? Are they too lazy to open their mouth?

Lol i'm glad there are serious responses but glad with the dumb ones. It's a serious question due to someone stupid saying fer like it's normal. MickeyTheNinja

What dumb ones? everyone is being serious about this as its such a serious topic

there is only one correct answer to this which is the way indians pronounce it: foor.

I pronounce it as "four".

Both ways. Sometimes it depends on how fast I'm talking, what I'm talking about, or who I'm talking to.

By itself I say it as "for", but in a sentence like 'I will do it for you', I pronounce it as "I will do it fer yeh"

F-or. It's only pronounced as ferdue to poor pronunciation in speech.

For, 4, Fore, Four, Foar, F0r, **** Ma, Dizzle, ^4, {x-4}=5 {4x4^4}=4 {4x4^4+X6} X=4

How the hell can you say fer? That's like saying Fur.

4, although if I'm stringing a sentence and generally being informal I may hint towards fer. although that's not the correct pronunciation obvsly

4, although if I'm stringing a sentence and generally being informal I may hint towards fer. although that's not the correct pronunciation obvsly

Overlord93

From my understanding it can be either.

And not necessarily one way for one person and the other for another person.

Like anything dealing with a languages phonology, the phonological environment (as in which phonemes follow and which phonemes precede) matters.

So it can be (again from what I have observed) that a person will pronounce "for" differently in the two following examples:

- for me

- for you

And at the end of the day it could even be a matter of an idiolect: the peculiar way each person uses their language.

Fer is redneck for for. I obviously pronounce it for, but I occasionally hear the rednecks use fer.

I say fer when I have my redneck accent on.

[QUOTE="-Big_Red-"]I thought that you were suppose to say it exactly how it's spelled. Was this person you were talking to, country?gamerguru100