Many English speakers pronounce pour and poor the same. For these speakers the vowels of the two words have merged and both are pronounced with the mid back vowel of pour. The merger is found in both England and the United States.
Speakers who have the merger pronounce the pairs tore/tour and your/you're the same. The merger occurs in both rhotic and non-rhotic varieties of English. In England the merger is more common in the south than in the north.
English has many vowel mergers before /r/. A famous vowel merger is the marry-merry-Mary merger. Another is the pour-poor merger.
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