User:Rëdbl Speling/Prnunciätion exrcïses: "oo" and "öö"

The sëquence "öö" is alwäs prnounced as /ʊ/.

The sëquence "oo" can be prnounced bäsicly as /uː/. There are, of corse, exeptions, nöted belö.

Many stüdents ar not awär that /uː/ and /ʊ/ are difrnt phönëms. For them a prërequisit lesn is Pronunciation exercises: /uː/ vs /ʊ/.

/uː/

 * boom - boost - boot - brood - choos - cool - coot - croonr - doom - drool - droop - food - fool - hoop - hoot - loop - loose - loot - mood - moon - moose - moot - noon - pool - proof - root - scool - scoonr - scoop - shoot - soon - spook - spool - snookr - snooz - stool - stoop - tool - toot - tooth - troop - zoom

At the end of the word "oo" alwäs sounds /uː/. Stress marks aded to facilität prnunciätion.
 * bamˈboo - boo - ˈcuckoo /ˈkʊkuː/ - ˈigloo - kangˈroo - moo - shamˈpoo - shoo - taˈboo - taˈtoo - too - ˈvoodoo - ˈWatrloo or Watrˈloo - zoo

/ʊ/
Önly a few consnants can follow /ʊ/.
 * "d": childhööd - gööd - hööd - neibrhööd - stööd - undrstööd - wööd
 * "k": böök - bröök - cöök - cröök - höök - löök - röök - shöök - töök
 * "l": wööl
 * "t": fööt - föötball - sööt

Some people add "f" and "m" to the above consnants (see "/uː/ or /ʊ/" below).
 * "f": hoof - hööf; roof - rööf;
 * "m": broom - brööm; groom - grööm; room - rööm;

/uː/ or /ʊ/
In the 1920s and erlier the mor üsüal prnunciätion of room was probably /rʊm/. In the Ünïted Kingdm in 1988, 81% prnounced /ruːm/. In the Ünïted Stäts in 1993 the figure was hïer: 93%.

Othr exampls: bedroom - bedrööm; blooming - blööming (swär word); broom - brööm; groom - grööm; hoof - hööf; mushroom - mushrööm; roof - rööf; room - rööm; roomy - röömy; root - rööt (önly as a väriant in Americn English);

Exeptions

 * /ɔː/ or /ʊə/: poor


 * /ʌ/: blood - flood

"öo"
 * /əʊ ɒ/: cöoprät - cöopration - zöologist - zöology
 * /əʊ ə/: zöologicl
 * /əʊ ɔː/: cöordinate - cöordinätion - micröorganism

Homophöns

 * root - rüt; shoe - shoo; too - two; wood - woud;

Variant words

 * root - rööt

Së alsö

 * Pronunciation exercises: /uː/ vs /ʊ/