English Pronunciation London Meetup With Gerardo, Tsui Yiu and Percy
This was our first week of English Pronunciation London Meetups for conversation since the summer break. People from a number of countries, including for the first time Haiti, came to practice their fluency and pronunciation in class.
Perhaps you already know how to pronounce put foot could woman. We pronounce the vowel sound in all of the words above as /ʊ/. Whilst you may be familiar with the pronunciation of the word ‘put’, you must see that this very same word could reasonably be pronounced /pʌt/. But it isn’t. We have the word ‘putt’ for this, and that is an important word for you if you play golf. I don’t want to give you a list of other words in which we pronounce the ‘u’ as /ʌ/ as I have already been over the /ʌ/ sound in my earlier post. So turning back to the /ʊ/ sound, you can see the letter ‘u’ pronounced with this sound in the words ‘bush’, ‘bull’ and ‘cushion’. /bʊʃ//bʊl//kʊʃən/. The infographic below gives further examples.
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