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Kooyeen Posted 19 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Do - dew

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00I pronounce "do" and "dew" the same way. 02br
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00Who pronounce them differently? (that is, words like "dew" and "new" are more like "d-you" and "n-you")02br
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00Thanks 050010id1
  

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02br 02br 00I believe that most England English dialects preserve it. Probably many Scottish and Irish dialects do as well. 0-

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  • 02br 02br 00I believe that most England English dialects preserve it.
  • Probably many Scottish and Irish dialects do as well.
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0 General American English merges them02br
00Some Southern dialects preserve the distinction.02br
00The ones who preserve the distinction [ du ] vs [ dju ] tend to be older people.02br
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00Some Canadians preserve the distinction.02br
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00Others add it as an affectation, because they have heard it from someone else, and decided
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0 Do = "doo" 02br
00Dew = "dy-ew"0-
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00I pronounce "do" and "dew" the same way.12blockquote
10 Me too.02br
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0 I pronounce them differently. Most British people will. 0-
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0 How do Australians and New Zealanders say them? 0-
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0 Most British people will. 02br
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00 Do you distinguish between dew and Jew? Duel and jewel?02br
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0 Thank you.02br
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00Anyway, I hear a lot of people (on the radio or on TV) pronounce words like "news" more like "n-you-z", not really "nooz". Let's say it's somewhere between "nooz" and "n-you-z", and I really hear a lot of people pronounce "news" that way. Maybe a "pure do-dew merger" is restricted only to certain regions?02br
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10Do you distinguish between dew and Jew? Duel and jewel?12br
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10I do generally - using an allphone of /d/ for the first but the afficate /00ʤ/ for the second. The distinction can get a little blurred in the pace of connected speech, though.0-
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0 I do when I'm speaking 'properly' but as Lil' RR says, it does get rather blurred sometimes. 0-
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0We pronounce it in the same way Kooyeen . ''do=d'yew''.0-
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