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How are people pronouncing NUC? Like “nuck” (rhymes with “Zuck”) or “nuke” (rhymes with “puke”)?
by dmvdoug 3y ago
How are people pronouncing NUC? Like “nuck” (rhymes with “Zuck”) or “nuke” (rhymes with “puke”)?
- tim-fan 3y agoOr nook (rhymes with book)? At work I say nuck, but most others say nook, so I'd like to get to the bottom of this!
- dmvdoug 3y agoNow I’m imagining your coworkers talking about getting nookie.
- vxNsr 3y agoWait, zuck and book rhyme, how are nook and nuck different?
- tomsmeding 3y agozUck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_central_vowel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-open_central_vowel bOOk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_rounded_vowel https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_central_rounded_vowel
- vxNsr 3y agoMust be a midwestern accent thing, I don’t pronounce book, “boooook” (as in what a ghost with a cough says)
- smolder 3y agoBook/nook are not as in boo/goo, but they're also not the same as in buck/Zuck. This is not a Midwestern thing. I can't recall ever meeting a native US english speaker for whom these vowel sounds weren't distinct. Probably in some accents they blur together.
- saltcured 3y agoRather, I think some may be rhyming Zuck with buck which does not rhyme with book. Edit: oops, smolder said the same thing but I was reading a stale page without the reply...
- dmvdoug 3y agoHere are some pairs of words to show they don’t rhyme: Pluck / took Duck / rook Suck / shook
- folmar 3y agoLike ``news''.
- whalesalad 3y agoit's like gif as in gif