Exercise 8-1 :
Comparing and
Look at the chart that follows and repeat each word.
We are contrasting the sound first column
a strong, nonreducible sound, ooh,
that is made far forward in the mouth,
with the lips fully rounded
with the reduced sound in the second and fourth columns.
1. booed book
2. boo bushel
3. cooed could
4. cool cushion
5. food foot
6. fool full
7. gooed good
8. who'd hood
9. kook cook
10. crew crook
11. Luke look
12. nuke nook
13. pool pull
14. pooch put
15. shoe sugar
16. suit soot
17. shoot should
18. stewed stood
19. toucan took
20. wooed would