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Ruby Tuesday, who could hang a name on you?
Ra-ra-Rasputin
Lover of the Russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
The set that’s smart is intruding at nudist parties in studios; anything goes!
In the US, the name “Luke” is pronounced along a range from a straight-up L-oo-k (rhymes with “moon” or “spoon”) — no lip movement toward a “kiss” — to just a bit of such lip movement, more of a “lewk.”
In many British-y countries, certainly in the British English as pronounced by some South Asians, an “ee” is indeed inserted before the “oo,” with or without that lip rounding at the end — hence, “lee-ook” or “lee-ewk.”
(If the tongue happens to be high against the palate, I can see this as an IPA /j/, but I can hardly hear the difference between this and a normal “ee” in this situation).
How about “Ruth”? (“Ruthless,” too, I guess.) That’s just R-oo-th, right? You’d have to pretty much parody a Southern accent to get R-ee-oo-th.
Tree-oo dat.
Hungarian would be one of those. Hungarian has pairs for all the vowels: [a, á], [e, é], [i, í], [o, ó], [ö,ő], [u, ú], [ü, ű]. In the first two pairs, in addition to length, the sound does slightly change, but in all the others, the only difference is length. In IPA, they would be [ɒ, aː], [ɛ, eː] and then [i, i:]. [o, o:], [ø, ø:], [u, u:], [y, y:].