One of the teachers in my school always uses the "oo" sound instead of the "ew" sound in words like "skew", so he pronnounces the word "skoo".
2006-11-23 07:15:15 · 4 answers · asked by 2 days after my B day :) 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
vulcan
2006-11-23 07:23:53 · answer #1 · answered by gandalf 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If your teacher pronounces "skew" like "skoo", then what he's actually missing is a consonant, not the "oo" sound. If you say "skew" to yourself, you will hear four sounds: "skyu". If he sounds like "skoo", then he's actually leaving out the "y" sound.
In fact, it might not be influence from his native language, but simply that your teacher is trying to accurately pronounce the letters that are in the spelling of the word "skew", not knowing that there is another consonant sound that isn't represented. English is famous for not having a very close relationship between the way a word is spelled and the way it sounds.
(This is hard to represent in normal English spelling characters, but I hope you'll know what I'm talking about.)
2006-11-23 08:41:26 · answer #2 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Addadicktome
2016-05-22 23:47:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In any language the "ew" does not exist. English is the only where it exists
2006-11-23 07:23:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋