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