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Why do Americans pronounce the u sound in words like news and dude differently from British speakers?
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∙ 14y ago
This is the result of diverging dialects over time. The British pronunciation of the U sound in these words is the "ewe" sound (hew, few), whereas the American version most often uses the "oo" sound (do, two, coup). Note that this does not extend to all "ew" words, especially where there is already a word using the "oo" (e.g. mew-moo, hew-who, pew-pooh, pure-poor), but that in many US areas "dew" and "do" are now homophones.
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