How do you pronounce this word?
“Dower” or “Door”
I have always heard it said “dower,” and have pronounced it that way myself. But a wise and learned woman just pronounced it “door” this week. She also had pronounced it dour but had recently been corrected.
So, please leave a comment with the phonetic spelling of your pronunciation: dower or door. Thank you.
ClearingSpace4Joy 
dower
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Dower for sure.
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Dower. Is this an east coast too close to England thing?
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Dour rhymes with doer. Oxford English phonetics tells me so.
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Although when I looked it up just now both are fine. Comes from Latin durus meaning hard, through Scottish Gaelic dur, to Middle English dour.
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This makes the most sense for why it would rhyme with doer.
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Being from Kansas I grew up reading the word as dower, roof as ruuff, roots as ruts and creek as crick. Now I believe that dour rhymes not with sour, but sewer.
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