Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:58 am
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How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
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Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:55 am
What or who is Choober ?
Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:45 am
???Erik_Sweden wrote:What or who is Choober ?
Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 10:50 am
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Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:51 pm
The good ol' /ˈtjuːbə/ vs. /ˈtuːbə/ argument.
Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 1:57 pm
"Tyuba" is an error that might be more likely in some regional dialects than others, but arguably an error in any case. The word entered the English language in the 19th century, from Latin or my dictionary says Italian.
Other similar words came along much earlier, and were caught in the series of vowel changes that made English spelling so eccentric - and/or they're from French, where "u" is a "front" vowel that sounds more like "yew" than "oo".
But when words come into English, we take them as they're spelled, and the spelling isn't any authority on how they're to be pronounced. If it came from Italian that recently, there isn't a valid reason for a "yew" sound. That would have to come from trying to pronounce it by the spelling, which is a sort of rookie mistake - you can tell non-native speakers because they tend to do that.
Other similar words came along much earlier, and were caught in the series of vowel changes that made English spelling so eccentric - and/or they're from French, where "u" is a "front" vowel that sounds more like "yew" than "oo".
But when words come into English, we take them as they're spelled, and the spelling isn't any authority on how they're to be pronounced. If it came from Italian that recently, there isn't a valid reason for a "yew" sound. That would have to come from trying to pronounce it by the spelling, which is a sort of rookie mistake - you can tell non-native speakers because they tend to do that.
Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 4:39 pm
JFK would have said "two-ber".... like "kew-ber".
Re: How do you non-UK/Aussie people pronounce "choober" ?
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:07 pm
Dan Schultz wrote:JFK would have said "two-ber".... like "kew-ber".
