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In other varieties of English, flour and flower are homophones, i.e. they are pronounced alike. In British English, for example, flour and flower are both pronounced /fla??/. 

In Singapore, however, they are not homophones � ignoring actual vowel quality (i.e. /a, ?, ?/), flower is /flaw?/ while flour is /fla?/. The pronunciation of flour is probably a result of smoothing, in which less salient vowels are dropped.