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From: "Cynthia Donnell" <csdonnell@m...>
"Cynthia Donnell" <csdonnell@m...>
Date: Wed Oct 18, 2000 6:23 pm
Subject: Re: [vocalist-temporary] The Ubiquitious AH Vowel

I must have missed something in this thread. In phonics /u/ fool, tool - is taught as the 'long u'. /U/ book, cook - is taught as 'short u'. I can't imagine someone insisting that /u/ is short. BTW, the upside-down V is the sound of "u" in "jump" rather than the "oo" in "foot"/fUt/. Cindy Donnell -----Original Message----- From: dorisopran@a... <dorisopran@a... < referred to as short -- (the upside down v of foot and the schwa, yes)... but we sustain the "fool" vowel in spoken English. I am forever telling Asian English students to prolong certain vowel sounds which they have a tendency to clip short, thus making their English less understandable. That [u] is one of them.