009 OO as in BOOK
2: The 7 Short Simple Vowels or Monophthongs
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The oo vowel is a lip vowel and so the lips should be in a rounded position but not as closely rounded as the whistling OO lip position and the back of the tongue is raised. When I first started my training I had a problem with this sound - because my lips were too relaxed, when I tried to say “Look at the good book.” It sounded more like: “Lerk at the gerd berk.” Try to keep your lips nicely rounded for “oo” as in “book”
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010 U as in CUP
The U vowel position is neutral, relaxed lips with the centre of the tongue slightly raised. Again, watch out that thus vowel isn’t distorted when it is followed by an “L”
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011 O as in COT
Here is the O vowel - O as in cot. The O vowel position is a slight rounding of the lips with a flat tongue.
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012 UH as in ANOTHER
This next sound is in many ways the KEY to British Standard English Pronunciation because it occurs again and again and again. It is the neutral vowel or schwa:
“uh” as in “another”
The lips are neutral and the centre of the tongue is half raised. You will find this sound not only in most unstr...
