Hurry–furry merger

Ref : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/#Hurry.E2.80.93furry_merger

The hurry–furry merger occurs when the vowel /ʌ/ before intervocalic /r/ is merged with /ɜ/.

That is particularly a feature in many dialects of North American English.

Speakers with the merger pronounce hurry to rhyme with furry and turret to rhyme with stir it. 

To occur, the merger requires the nurse mergers (cure-nurse merger) to be in full effect, which is the case outside the British Isles.

In Scotland, hurry /ˈhʌre/ is a perfect rhyme of furry /ˈfʌre/, but there is no merger since the vowel /ɜ/ has never developed because of the lack of nurse mergers. That means that STRUT, DRESS and KIT can all occur before both intervocalic and coda /r/ and so fur, fern, and fir have distinct vowels: /fʌr, fɛrn, fɪr/.

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