The UI pair has a long OO sound. The "yoo" sound is heard in words such as cute and fuel.
The vowel sound is a long U (long OO) vowel sound (floot).The YOO sound is another form of the long U, long OO, where a consonant shapes a y-sound. Some YOO words are cute, mute, fuel, feud, and uniform.
The word "view" has an "oo" sound, like in "blue" or "shoe".
No, the word "pure" does not have a long U vowel sound. It has a short U sound, as in "puh-yoor."
The difference lies in the position of the lips when pronouncing them. "Oo" is a rounded vowel sound where the lips form a tight circle, as in the word "boot." "Yoo" is also a rounded vowel sound but with a slight spread in the lips, as in the word "cute."
It is the long U sound, which is either a long OO or more narrowly a YOO sound.(fyoo)
A long U is a long OO sound, which may also sound like YOO when following certain consonants. There is also a "short OO" sound that is midway between (uh) and (oo). Long OO words : cool, moon, dune, suit, due (also do and dew), stew, lieu, deuce Long OO (YOO) words : cute, fuel, uniform, beauty (Short OO words : good, foot, soot, put, could)
The word "nephew" has a short u sound, pronounced like "NEF-yoo."
No. The OU in the word "you" has a long U (long OO, long YOO) vowel sound.
The long U sound can be defined two ways. One is by the sound of its name, the YOO sound heard in unit, uniform, cute, mule, pupil, and human. However, the U has a long OO sound in words such as dune, flute, chute, fruit, and suit, which is the same sound heard in cool, moon, and tomb. So the long U can be either a YOO or an OO, where the YOO is an OO with a consonant Y in front of it. The difficulty with making both of these the "long U" is that there are word pairs that have both sounds: cute/coot, mute/moot, feud/food, and fuel/fool. Most dictionaries do not use the ū sign for this reason.
The YOO sound in "use" is a long U (long OO) sound. It sounds like (yooz).
No. It has the long OO variant of the long U sound. The U is a long OO in true, blue, flue, flute, and chute. The U is a long YOO in cue, cute, mule, mute, fuel, and feud, and in unit and uniform.
The word butte rhymes with cute and mute. It has a long U (long YOO) vowel sound.(*some guides consider the long OO and long YOO separate sounds, but only the Y consonant sound is different, as in cute, which has an OO version coot)