American English Pronunciation Workbook

Examples of the Vowel [u]


Primary Stress

1.   [pɹuv]

you prove up on it as they say you

2.   [kul]

this sounds cool

3.   [sut]

one i'm sure others would follow suit

4.   [dud]

dude

5.   [fud]

it's kind of like making your mouth water when you see food

6.   [fud]

and then you come here you know what i mean you see people standing out on street corners with signs work for food

7.   [fudɪ]

organic food

8.   [fud]

up to front door and she'd fix them food and so she she was a very

9.   [ʤun]

in june

10.   [juθ]

uh for economically disadvantaged youth adults and dislocated workers

11.   [ɡɹups]

ya know because they were far apart enough they had their own social groups

12.   [skulz]

really in columbus public schools

13.   [ɡufi]

the class was kinda goofy

14.   [studn̩s]

this out to you but he happened to be one of my uh fellow students down at ohio university

15.   [juzɪkl̩]

musical groups

16.   [ʤunjɚ]

yeah by then it was junior year

17.   [kɑɹtunz]

cartoons just seem so worthless nowadays but

18.   [ɪmpɹuvɪŋ]

improving

19.   [ʧuɪŋ]

caught chewing gum

20.   [əkskjus]

there's no excuse

21.   [kulɪŋ]

heating cooling and ventilation

22.   [duɪŋ]

then yknow they would have been doing what they were supposed to do to

23.   [junəʔt]

because they had a small school there for the kids that were in the adolescent unit

24.   [junɪn]

and it's like number one in the union and that's like

25.   [junjən]

it's a tough call because it's very unusual situation here at ohio state where they have a union and they have so many different skills in a union you think of unions you think of autoworkers you think of pipefitters you think of you don't think of such a wide variety of people

26.   [kɪmjunikeɪʃənz]

communications communications as it's going uh that it's

Secondary Stress

27.   [səbsɪtut]

the kids will lash out on substitute teachers i think it's really crazy

28.   [mɪnɪskjul]

yeah there's almost nobody anymore that's willing to do uh just uh miniscule things

29.   [æɾətud]

i think my attitude would be

30.   [lɔsut]

like a lawsuit case

31.   [ɪntu]

putting himself into

32.   [ɪntuvjud]

girls that have been interviewed

Unstressed

33.   [sɪʧueɪʃɛns]

much worse situations

34.   [ɪnfluəns]

uh influence that uh it it's almost a forgone conclusion

35.   [bæθɹums]

put bathrooms and kitchens and stuff

36.   [bæθɹumz]

bathrooms done

37.   [dɪsʧɚbjudɪŋ]

i mean there they've gone to distributing

38.   [æmbɪɡjuʊs]

well in in the ambiguous part of it yknow just saying try to be

39.   [unaɪd]

catholics united for the faith

40.   [ɡɹæʤueɪts]

older graduate she'll be nineteen when she graduates

41.   [ɪʃuz]

on the issues so they'd find other things to get


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