Exercise 8-1: comparing [u:] and [u]
Look at the chart that follows and repeat each word. We are contrasting the sound [u:] （first column）——a strong, nonreducible sound,[ooh], that is made far forward in the mouth , with the lips fully rounded——with the reduced [u] sound in the second and fourth columns.
[u:] [u] [u:] [u]
1. booed book 11.luke Look
2. boo bushel 12. nuke nook
3. cooed Could 13. pool Pull
4. cool Cushion 14.pooch nut
5. food foot 15. shoe Sugar
6.fool full 16. suit Soot
7. gooed good 17. shoot Should
8. who'd hood 18. stewed Stood
9. kook cook 19. toucan Took
10.crew crook 20.wooed would
Look at the chart that follows and repeat each word. We are contrasting the sound [u:] （first column）——a strong, nonreducible sound,[ooh], that is made far forward in the mouth , with the lips fully rounded——with the reduced [u] sound in the second and fourth columns.
[u:] [u] [u:] [u]
1. booed book 11.luke Look
2. boo bushel 12. nuke nook
3. cooed Could 13. pool Pull
4. cool Cushion 14.pooch nut
5. food foot 15. shoe Sugar
6.fool full 16. suit Soot
7. gooed good 17. shoot Should
8. who'd hood 18. stewed Stood
9. kook cook 19. toucan Took
10.crew crook 20.wooed would