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What the heck. It's "moot", not "mute".

• wizofaus 4y ago
  I'm curious, are there accents in which those two words are homophones? Given the US tendency to pronounce new/due/tune as noo/doo/toon I can imagine some might say mute as moot but I can't find anything authoritative online.
  • danuker 4y ago
    They are not perfect homophones. There is a slight i (IPA j) in "mute". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mute https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mute https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot
  • jcranmer 4y ago
    According to Wikipedia, East Anglia does universal yod-dropping, so mute/moot would be homophonic. (See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_dialect-dependent_homophones#Yod-dropping_and_coalescence https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_dialect-depe...). Personally, I haven't come across anyone who pronounces 'mute' without the /j/.