NURSE

usurp, hurt, lurk, church, turf, purse,

curb, curd, urge, curve, furze,

turn, curl, spur, occurred,

burnt, burst, murder, further,...;

shirt, irk, birch, birth, bird, dirge,

firm, girl, fir, stirred, first, circus, virtue,..;

myrrh, myrtle, Byrne;

twerp, assert, jerk, perch, serf, berth, terse,

verb, erg, emerge, nerve,

term, stern, deter, err,¹ preferred,

certain, person, immersion, emergency, kernel,...;

Earp, earth, dearth, hearse, rehearse, search,

heard, earn, yearn, earl, pearl,

rehearsal, early, earnest;

wort, work, worth, worse, word, worm, whorl,

worst, Worthing, worthy, whortleberry;

scourge, adjourn, courteous,² journal, journalist, journey;

attorney, colonel, liqueur, ³ masseur,³ connoisseur.³

¹ occasionally with the vowel of DRESS.

² occasionally with the vowel of FORCE.

³ sometimes with the vowel of CURE.