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Why the "oo" in "noon" is pronounced sounding like "you" while the word "moon" isn't? [closed]
I was taught to pronounce the oo in either afternoon or noon as /u:/ ~~the oo in nook~~ until I found some native speakers pronounce the noon sounding like new-n (videos). But the AmE IPA in the ...
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Why do Americans pronounce "Noo York" the way they do? [duplicate]
I'm wondering if there is a historical explanation as to why the New in "New York" is pronounced /nu/ (as in "Noodles") rather than /nju/ (as in RP "New Year").
Has this always been the case? Or did ...
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The spelling "ui" and the pronunciation /uː/ in juice, fruit, bruise, cruise, sluice, suit, nuisance, recruit, bruit
The words juice, fruit, bruise, cruise, sluice, suit, pursuit, suitcase, lawsuit, nuisance, recruit, bruit are spelled with ui and pronounced with the IPA phoneme /uː/.
Full pronunciations from OED:
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Is the pronunciation difference between “BrE deuce” vs “AmE deuce” systematic?
While checking the exact pronunciation of the term deuce, I noticed that there is a clear difference between BrE /djuːs/ and NAmE /duːs/.
While it is true that pronunciation has more exceptions ...
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Yod dropping - Why is there a distinction in the pronunciations of "sewn" and "hewn"?
"Sewn" is pronounced /sōn/, whereas "hewn" is pronounced /hyo͞on/. Is there a reason for the difference in their pronunciations despite their spellings and origins being similar?
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Why does Tom Hanks pronounce "stupid" as "st-you-pid" in "The Bonfire of the Vanities"?
This may or may not related to my previous question. In this movie (which is based on another one of Tom Wolfe's novels, The Bonfire of the Vanities), Tom Hanks plays the lead character who is an Ivy ...
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Why the does 'tu' get pronounced 'tyu' in British English?
Despite being a native Brit, I've always found it an oddity that words like "tutor", "tube", "tumour", and "duty" are pronounced as "tyutor", "tyube", "tyumour", and "duty" in British English. For me, ...
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What is the name of the phoneme produced in an upper-class Briton's pronunciation of the word "Duke"? What's different in the articulation?
When someone with a Received Pronunciation accent pronounces the word duke, as in The Duke of York, he doesn't pronounce it with a "hard" 'd', as one might pronounce the word duh, but a softer type 'd'...
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How do you pronounce 'news'?
My coworker and I have been having this discussion for a day or two...
What is the most correct way to pronounce 'new' or 'news' ?
Does it rhyme with 'few' ? or 'snooze' ?
Does 'new crew' rhyme?
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