English questions

[Lērisama]

Using Travis's words, I have:

1. NORTH/FORCE [oː] in poor, tour, Moore, gourmet, gourd, boor, your, you're, tourney¹, bourgeois (i.e. /ˈbɔːʒwɑː/, with PALM/START/FATHER at the end)
2. /j/+CURE [jɵː] in pure, cure, curious, fury, bureau, Ural, manure
3. CURE without /j/ [ɵː] in plural, jury, luxurious, rural
4. NURSE [ɜː] in Bourbon¹
5. Register dependent 1 varying with 2 in sure, mature, endure

In short, CURE holds up for me quite well, but is steadily merging into NORTH/FORCE

¹ These words aren't part of my active vocabulary, so take there assignments with a grain of salt.

[anteallach]

Using Travis's words, I have:

1. NORTH/FORCE [oː] in poor, tour, Moore, gourmet, gourd, boor, your, you're, tourney¹, bourgeois (i.e. /ˈbɔːʒwɑː/, with PALM/START/FATHER at the end)
2. /j/+CURE [jɵː] in pure, cure, curious, fury, bureau, Ural, manure
3. CURE without /j/ [ɵː] in plural, jury, luxurious, rural
4. NURSE [ɜː] in Bourbon¹
5. Register dependent 1 varying with 2 in sure, mature, endure

In short, CURE holds up for me quite well, but is steadily merging into NORTH/FORCE

¹ These words aren't part of my active vocabulary, so take there assignments with a grain of salt.

My pattern is very similar. I have FORCE in all your group 1 words, and also in Bourbon, at least as long as it's a biscuit or a royal family. In the others, including your group 5, I have what I would transcribe as [ʊː].

(I have TRAP in the second syllable of bourgeois, though.)

[Nortaneous]

/or/: Boer, boor, bourgeois, gourd, gourmet, poor, tour, tourist
/jɝ/: bureau, cure, curious, fury, pure, Ural, your, you're
/ɝ/: bourbon, during, jury, neural, plural, rural, tournament (who says "tourney"? renfaires? SCA? I haven't been to a joust in ages)
/ɝ/ + yod coalescence: luxurious, mature, sure

[Man in Space]

who says "tourney"? renfaires? SCA? I haven't been to a joust in ages

People who follow sports (a quiz bowl tourney, a volleyball tourney). My phone accepts it as a valid word.

[Starbeam]

I mostly know 'tourney' from Smash Bros. I'm surprized anyone doesn't know 'Bourbon', tho.

[Lērisama]

I mostly know 'tourney' from Smash Bros. I'm surprized anyone doesn't know 'Bourbon', tho.

I know it, but just from reading, so I can't pronounce it.

[Raphael]

I mostly know 'tourney' from Smash Bros. I'm surprized anyone doesn't know 'Bourbon', tho.

I know it, but just from reading, so I can't pronounce it.

Bourbon? I guess that depends on whether you're referring to Bourbon whiskey or the House of Bourbon. In the former case, you'd have to use English pronunciation rules; in the latter, French ones.

[Travis B.]

I mostly know 'tourney' from Smash Bros. I'm surprized anyone doesn't know 'Bourbon', tho.

I know it, but just from reading, so I can't pronounce it.

Bourbon? I guess that depends on whether you're referring to Bourbon whiskey or the House of Bourbon. In the former case, you'd have to use English pronunciation rules; in the latter, French ones.

I am used to one pronunciation in English, the one with NURSE, myself. I have never heard it with NORTH/FORCE or CURE.

[Richard W]

Bourbon? I guess that depends on whether you're referring to Bourbon whiskey or the House of Bourbon. In the former case, you'd have to use English pronunciation rules; in the latter, French ones.

I am used to one pronunciation in English, the one with NURSE, myself. I have never heard it with NORTH/FORCE or CURE.

Which difference makes it one of those words which don't belong to any lexical set!

[Nortaneous]

I mostly know 'tourney' from Smash Bros. I'm surprized anyone doesn't know 'Bourbon', tho.

I know it, but just from reading, so I can't pronounce it.

Bourbon? I guess that depends on whether you're referring to Bourbon whiskey or the House of Bourbon. In the former case, you'd have to use English pronunciation rules; in the latter, French ones.

It hadn't occurred to me that "Bourbon" would ever not be pronounced like the whiskey.

[anteallach]

I know it, but just from reading, so I can't pronounce it.

Bourbon? I guess that depends on whether you're referring to Bourbon whiskey or the House of Bourbon. In the former case, you'd have to use English pronunciation rules; in the latter, French ones.

It hadn't occurred to me that "Bourbon" would ever not be pronounced like the whiskey.

I guess the biscuit (which was certainly my first encounter with the word, and which I learnt to pronounce with FORCE) isn't particularly known in the US?

[Travis B.]

Bourbon? I guess that depends on whether you're referring to Bourbon whiskey or the House of Bourbon. In the former case, you'd have to use English pronunciation rules; in the latter, French ones.

It hadn't occurred to me that "Bourbon" would ever not be pronounced like the whiskey.

I guess the biscuit (which was certainly my first encounter with the word, and which I learnt to pronounce with FORCE) isn't particularly known in the US?

I hadn't heard of that kind of cookie (to me 'biscuit' implies something savory) before your post here. To me Bourbon is always pronounced with NURSE in English.

[Nortaneous]

Bourbon? I guess that depends on whether you're referring to Bourbon whiskey or the House of Bourbon. In the former case, you'd have to use English pronunciation rules; in the latter, French ones.

It hadn't occurred to me that "Bourbon" would ever not be pronounced like the whiskey.

I guess the biscuit (which was certainly my first encounter with the word, and which I learnt to pronounce with FORCE) isn't particularly known in the US?

They have them at the Indian markets. It wouldn't have occurred to me to pronounce them with FORCE.

[jcb]

(who says "tourney"? renfaires? SCA? I haven't been to a joust in ages)

I've been to baseball tourneys, volleyball tourneys, and smash bros tourneys. I admit that "tournament" is a more common word, but "tourney" is still used plenty too.

I guess the biscuit (which was certainly my first encounter with the word, and which I learnt to pronounce with FORCE) isn't particularly known in the US?

I've never heard of this food.

The only thing that comes to mind when I hear /borb/ is the "borb" meme, which refers to a cute, round (orb-like) bird.

[Travis B.]

I honestly don't like "CURE" for this reason. For instance, I have:

/ur/ in poor, tour, Moore, lure
/jur/~/jər/ in pure, cure
/jər/ in curious, fury, bureau, Ural, euro, Europe
/ur/~/ɔr/ in Boer, gourmet
/ɔr/ in gourd, boor
/ɔr/~/ər/ in your, you're
/ur/~/ər/ in sure, mature, endure, manure
/ər/ in plural, jury, luxurious, rural, tourney, Bourbon
/ʊ/ in bourgeois (i.e. /bʊʒˈwɑ/)

I have to revise these vowels. I realized that I have a rounded version of NURSE, which I will call /ɵr/ [ʁ̩ʷˤ(ː)(ʁˤ)], in many CURE words. I found this because when trying to pronounce these words with plain NURSE they just did not come out quite right, and then I realized that when I pronounced them my "NURSE" was rounded. So here are my revised pronunciations:

/ur/ in poor, tour, Moore, lure
/jur/~/jɵr/ in pure, cure
/jɵr/ in curious, fury, bureau, Ural, euro, Europe
/ur/~/ɔr/ in Boer, gourmet
/ɔr/ in gourd, boor
/ɔr/~/ər/ in your, you're
/ur/~/ɵr/ in sure, mature, endure, manure
/ɵr/ in luxurious
/ər/ in plural, jury, rural, tourney, Bourbon
/ʊ/ in bourgeois (i.e. /bʊʒˈwɑ/)

[Darren]

I have /oː/ in all of those words except for some reason Europe, which is short /jʊ/ (I think this is GenAus but I'll let other the aussies weigh in).

[bradrn]

I believe I have:

[ʊɜ̆~ɵɜ̆] in poor, tour, Moore (and arguably Boer but Afrikaans influence makes that one atypical)
[ʊɜ̆~ɵː] in lure, sure
[jʊɜ̆~jɵɜ̆~jɵ̟ː] in pure, cure, you’re, endure, manure
[(j)ʊɜ̆~jɵ̟ː] in mature (this one seems to vary with word class! the verb gets a yod)
[ʊˑɻʷ~ɵˑɻʷ] in rural, plural, jury, luxurious (words listed from most backed to most fronted, but no clear dividing lines between the two realisations)
[jʊˑɻʷ~jɵˑɻʷ] in curious, fury, euro
[jʊɻʷ~jɵɻʷ] in Europe
[o̞ː] in gourmet, gourd, your
[uʁ] in bourgeois

[Travis B.]

I believe I have:

[ʊɜ̆~ɵɜ̆] in poor, tour, Moore (and arguably Boer but Afrikaans influence makes that one atypical)
[ʊɜ̆~ɵː] in lure, sure
[jʊɜ̆~jɵɜ̆~jɵ̟ː] in pure, cure, you’re, endure, manure
[(j)ʊɜ̆~jɵ̟ː] in mature (this one seems to vary with word class! the verb gets a yod)
[ʊˑɻʷ~ɵˑɻʷ] in rural, plural, jury, luxurious (words listed from most backed to most fronted, but no clear dividing lines between the two realisations)
[jʊˑɻʷ~jɵˑɻʷ] in curious, fury, euro
[jʊɻʷ~jɵɻʷ] in Europe
[o̞ː] in gourmet, gourd, your
[uʁ] in bourgeois

Now I wonder how you'd analyze all these!

[bradrn]

I believe I have:

[ʊɜ̆~ɵɜ̆] in poor, tour, Moore (and arguably Boer but Afrikaans influence makes that one atypical)
[ʊɜ̆~ɵː] in lure, sure
[jʊɜ̆~jɵɜ̆~jɵ̟ː] in pure, cure, you’re, endure, manure
[(j)ʊɜ̆~jɵ̟ː] in mature (this one seems to vary with word class! the verb gets a yod)
[ʊˑɻʷ~ɵˑɻʷ] in rural, plural, jury, luxurious (words listed from most backed to most fronted, but no clear dividing lines between the two realisations)
[jʊˑɻʷ~jɵˑɻʷ] in curious, fury, euro
[jʊɻʷ~jɵɻʷ] in Europe
[o̞ː] in gourmet, gourd, your
[uʁ] in bourgeois

Now I wonder how you'd analyze all these!

I don’t.

[Travis B.]

I have /oː/ in all of those words except for some reason Europe, which is short /jʊ/ (I think this is GenAus but I'll let other the aussies weigh in).

So you pronounce euro with /joː/?