On another forum somebody asked the following question, set by his teacher.
There are three words where -oo- is pronounced as -u-, (IPA ^) one is BLOOD, another is FLOOD, find the third. (Variants of the two given words such as BLOODY, or FLOODED are excluded)
If it’s asked by a teacher, there presumably is an actual third word. I hope it’s not another -gry question.
I’ve been thinking, and googling, and I can’t find an answer. Any ideas?
Looking on Wikitionary for rhymes, I found ablood which is considered to be an archaic word.
Basically it seems like another -gry question.
You may be the victim of autocorrect, but it’s 'sblood, a contraction of God’s blood. It seems at best a variant of blood.
No, I’m a victim of insomnia and meant to add another link.
It doesn’t say it has to be -ood. Anybody know a word with -oo- as a schwa?
How about tookus? It’s more usually spelled tuckus or tuchus but I’ve found cites for tookus as a variant spelling.
Haroomph is sometimes used as a noun.
My cursory search of the internet where this oo as /^/ is discussed seems to suggest those are the only two words. Or at least a third hasn’t been brought up as a suggestion.
‘Slood’, the past pluperfect tense of ‘slidden’ is often mispronounced like its presumptive participle ‘slud’.
ETA: Almost used “it’s” instead of “its”. That would have been an embarrassing grammatical mistake.
Maybe I’m missing some fine point of pronunciation, but taking the question at face value, I would think that “crook” and “foot” both qualify, as I would pronounce them “cruk” and “fut”. Some people even pronounce “roof” with a “u” sound, though I don’t and it seems to be infrequent.
Is this a Canada thing? Noone of thoose woords rhyme with blood or flood that I’ve ever heard.
They certainly have a “u” sound, but in retrospect, you’re right, it’s a different “u” sound. Given that, I’m at a loss to think of a third word that is an exact parallel.
Good, hood, crook, foot, blood and flood are all have the “oo” pronounced identically for me. I’m sure there are more.
So you say ‘gud’ and ‘fut’ ? Is that a regional thing?
You may say it that way, but I don’t think it’s standard.
How do you say ‘food’ ?
Food is said differently, but the words Novelty_Bobble listed all more or less share an ‘oo’ sound in much of England at least.
Possibly a Chicago thing?
Northern English didn’t undergo the foot-strut split, so none of their words have the /ʌ/ sound that we’re trying to spell with “oo”. (They’re all pronounced with /ʊ/ as in foot.)
It’s a ‘northern’ thing (or that is how it’s commonly characterised. I imagine it might actually be an ‘everywhere but a fairly small southern-region’ thing).
in 1991, I (a southerner all my life) was working in Hull. A local asked me "Ave yer seen oOok?'.
I looked around, confused, thinking they were talking about something in the room.
They repeated “no, ave yer seen OoOk?”
I said… “no, I don’t think so”
“The fillum. oOok. Wi Robin Williams!”
Very widespread in the UK and not just the North. I live in the south east now and it is the same here. So if “standard” pronunciation means anything then it applies here.
Certainly “good” seems pretty universally pronounced the same as blood, could, would, should, etc. In the UK. I can’t ever remembering it pronounced in any alternative way.
“food” is a different beast. the long “oooo” sound is predominant but “fud” is common enough not to raise too much comment.
Well, yeah- how the ‘oo’ is pronounced varies an awful lot across the country, but even among those who visit the pond in the park to feed the dacks tend to say that list with more-or-less vowel consistency.
There are some exceptions- I have a slight difference in the vowel in ‘book’ to the others, and my very very Northern Aunt used to say ‘crook’ to rhyme with ‘fluke’, but most places I’ve lived I’ve heard the same vowel in most. Do you say any differently?