American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Vowel [ʊ]


Primary Stress

1.   [pʊt]

put the put slacks on girls and not leave it up to them to choose the height of their skirts and

2.   [ɡʊd]

they can want something this way but then they've got the senate and all these other committees down below them that if they overrule him what good does he yknow what can he do really

3.   [fʊl]

uh he's working full time at united dairy farmers

4.   [ɡʊd]

explain to him what he's supposed to do and he's a good writer

5.   [lʊk]

and you begin to look back

6.   [ʃʊd]

think they should have a

7.   [ɡʊɾ]

student council i'm good at school but bad outside of school

8.   [ʃʊd]

it's it's difficult to adopt children i mean and it and it should be

9.   [ɡʊd]

that's good though and i hope and i know my son who isn't married right now

10.   [tʊk]

uh we took

11.   [ʃʊd]

should i've

12.   [kʊk]

when i'm the cook

13.   [ɡʊd]

that's good but then

14.   [wʊd]

that i would uh

15.   [kʊd]

course everybody else could but

16.   [hʊdz]

and hoods

17.   [ɡʊd]

they're very good

18.   [pʊʔt]

well they pretty much put

19.   [ʃʊɡɚ]

pour sugar in it i guess because that's what people like and so i find that

20.   [ɡʊɾnəs]

we've kind of broken her of that thank goodness the counter stuff

21.   [kʊdn̩b]

things that they couldn't be healed

22.   [kʊdn̩]

i couldn't keep them in the chair long enough to do the speech therapy with them

23.   [wʊʔtn̩t]

but he's gotten away with it so many times with me i feel like he wouldn't

24.   [wʊn̩]

probably wouldn't be a good idea

25.   [ʃʊdn̩ʔt]

i've seen all kinds of people carry guns that shouldn't

26.   [ʃʊn̩n]

you shouldn't do it

27.   [lʊkɪŋ]

things like that and i wanna we're looking into greece

28.   [lʊkɪŋ]

important but when you're looking at the

29.   [lʊkɪŋ]

so they're really looking

30.   [lʊkə]

looking for our

31.   [lʊkɪŋ]

yeah i'm looking for work um taking my time looking for work

32.   [lʊkɪŋ]

so they're really looking

33.   [lʊkɪŋ]

uh as a private sector is still looking as

34.   [lʊkɪŋ]

part of is they feel flattered part of it is like wow the yknow this guy thinks i'm nice looking or whatever

35.   [wʊmɪn]

i mean he was going to a different babysitter a woman

36.   [wʊmɪn]

she was the rudest woman

37.   [wʊmən]

man and woman got married yknow and

38.   [ɪnʃʊɹəns]

off of the main office and it was a pretty prominent uh insurance company

Secondary Stress

39.   [neɪbɚhʊd]

almost the minority it was a pretty even it's a very it's a low income neighborhood

40.   [neɪbɚhʊd]

and yknow there kids in the neighborhood and


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