hour - our

Where is hour pronounced the same as our?

Or should we say *when* is "hour" pronounced the same as "our", or conversely, is "are" pronounced the same as "our". We have already had a discussion here of this sort, but I will quickly outline how it works here in southeastern Wisconsin. In less conservative everyday speech, and especially that of younger people, "our" rhymes with stressed "are" here, as [ˈɑːʁ], but in formal/stressed/careful speech and more conservative everyday speech "our" rhymes with "hour" here as, [ˈa̠ːo̯ʁ̩ː]. Other dialects may have only one pronunciation or the other, but at least here both are in active use.

Here in upstate NY, it's pretty much the same -- we say "our" like "hour" when we want to stress it, and pronounce it like "are" in more routine uses. Its not clear if this is age-dependent, though.

''Where is hour pronounced the same as our?''

It should be WHEN and not WHERE,
stressed form: same as ''hour''
unstressed form: same as ''are''

Where are they always pronounced the same?

I'm originally from Chicago, and I have the same system as Travis and the Guest from Upstate New York. I also have a bit of Canadian Raising on my pronunciation of "hour" and stressed version of "our".

I could be wrong, but I believe that most dialects in the United States and Canada use this method.

Should it be "when" not "where"? Should it not be "when, where and by whom"? My (Australian) "hour" rhymes with "flour", "power", "sour", "tower", etc. (i.e. /{O.@/) but, oddly enough, my "our" rhymes with "how", "now", "brow", "cow", etc. (i.e. /{O/).