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Words with [ju:]:

muae, muae, tune, lunie, cube, cubic, due, duty, new, newest, Hume, humid Contr astive pairs with lu:] and [ju:]:

orne uae    food feud    whose hues    moos* Muse (*3rrf person tg. of moo)

coot cute    who'd bued    booty beauty

Words containing [u], [u:] or [ju:]:

do, dew, due, duty, sooty, duke. Lukę, look, flew, flue, flute, feud, fume Words with [u] and [o] contrasted:

fu Iły foily fuDy    put pot put    rock rook rock

cook cock cook

Words with [u:] and [o:] constrasted:

cool cali    tool tali fool fali drew draw due claw

mood Maud

5. The English vowds [e.ae, a:]

§ 31. From the point of view of a native speaker of Polish, there are severa] e vowels in English, each pronouneed differently. They are the vowds represented by the phonetic symbols [e], [«], [a], and [a:]. Three of them will be discused here, and the weak vowel [•], which never occun in stressed syllables, will be described in the chapter on unstressed yowels.

Fig. 23. English |e), tongue poation

Fig. 24. Position of the lipa

u .'12 The vowd [e] is similar to Polish e but it u conaiderably higher ■tiul morę front It is intermediate between Połiah e and i and thua, during lin articulation, the tongue, and morę precisdy ita front and central part, ■Imiild be raised higher towar da the hard palate than for Polish e. Care ■lioiild be taken, however, not to make the vowel nearly aa high aa i. [e ] ia nlnaer to Połiah e in auch worda aa dzień, tierl, tiei rather than in bez, li«u>c or len.

1'lnainplea:

■Mit, let set get wet, best, nest, weat neck, deck, sex, deak, step, left, slept, yea, dress, less, fetch, sketch, fresh, test chest, crept, wept, sect jet chess

Nut* I. Before voiced conaonanta [e] is dightly longer than before voicełesa llinaonanta.

I .oniparc the paira:

lail kcd beck beg peck peg let led wet wed net Ned NitU 2. Before [m, n, 7j], undue nasalization ahould be avoided:

han, hence, pen, pence, den, dense, end, send, tent, went bench, French,

|M nrll

Nule Ł Before the ao-called dark p], which occura before a conaonant ni Morę a pause, [e] ia a little lowered and retracted, which makea U limast identical with Połiah e:

Ml. yell, heli. tell. aell. weD, Neli, help, hełm, bdt, felt ydp, elee

Nul* i. [e] ia somewhat longer in monosyllabic worda than in longer N..(.l.

F |«» |wnny pennileas heli helliah* red reddish

a»M« ariuuUve

l |n] ahould be clearły differentiated from [i]; although both vowda K| ahort, [i] ia higher, somewhat retracted and thua cloaer to Połiah y, •hM. |. | U completdy front, cloaer to Polish e in sień, wiel

)hltt|iarr
d" p**'	tin	ten
II Ml	fili	fell
M.| red	pick	peck
Wa U«	lift	left
ar 1	bid	bed

*łh» 111 herc ia not dark, so |e] ia normal, unretracted.

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