"Our"

Ever wondered how best to pronounce the word our?

Do our and are sound the same? What about our and hour? Or like pirates, arrr and our?

Choral directors must wonder this often in the context of pronunciation and diction in singing.  Check out this forum thread from ChoralNet.org debating the ways to sing our.

It's interesting to think about and hear the different ways that slang, regional dialects, different accents, and a plethora of other factors affect how words are said.