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BW2/3 Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
cop/cup
Are " cop" or " cup" pronounced the same?
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No. cop and cup are different. For the American English pronunciations you need to hold your mouth a bit more open to produce the sound in cop and bit more closed to produce the sound in cup .
- No.
- cop and cup are different.
- For the American English pronunciations you need to hold your mouth a bit more open to produce the sound in cop and bit more closed to produce the sound in cup .
- Similar pairs, which should be differentiated in the same way, are: cot, cut; sop, sup; rot, rut; mock, muck; lock, luck; dock, duck; pop, pup; don, dun; bomb*, ***.
- *The final b in bomb is silent.
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No. cop and cup are different. For the American English pronunciations you need to hold your mouth a bit more open to produce the sound in cop and bit more closed to produce the sound in cup.
Similar pairs, which should be differentiated in the same way, are:
cot, cut; sop, sup; rot, rut; mock, muck; lock, luck; dock, duck; pop, pup; don, dun;
Similar pairs, which should be differentiated in the same way, are:
cot, cut; sop, sup; rot, rut; mock, muck; lock, luck; dock, duck; pop, pup; don, dun;
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