Look vs. Luke American English pronunciation

someone has asked me to describe the

difference in the vowel sounds of the

words look and Luke so that would be the

UH as in pull and the ooh as in boo

vowel sounds the main difference is in

the mouth position what the lips do on

look oh you can see the corners come in

and therefore the lips come away from

the face on Luke loo they do the same

only the circle is tighter that brings

the sound more forward here in the mouth

and also it brings the tongue forward

just a little bit more let’s look at

some pictures here you see the two

side-by-side clearly in the word pull

the lips form a larger circle than in

the word boo this means that the corners

of the lips come in a little bit more

again in profile it is easy to see that

the lips are further apart in pull

therefore making a larger circle notice

in the word pull that the top lip is

more angular as it pulls away from the

face whereas in the word boo it is a

little more rounded the bottom lip also

makes a sharper angle with the face in

the word pull than it does on the word

boo as the lips stretch a bit more to

make this bigger circle with the lips

take a moment to study them in profile

watch the mouth as I read some words

with the ooh as in boo vowel poodle zu

boom boost proof shoot choose spoon and

now as I read some words with the aw as

in hole vowel could would foot full book

crook a few word pairs now the first

word in each pair has the oh as in boo

vowel sound and the second the o as in

pull fool full hoot hood cook cook nuke

nuke