Topic: Why don't USAmericans pronounce "cube" as "coob"?
Anonymous A started this discussion 10 years ago #48,514
Since, as any schoolboy can tell you, in USAmerican English, "tube" becomes "toob", and "lube" becomes "loob", should not also "cube" be pronounced as "coob"? Shall we reform this linguistic inconsistency?
| Poll option | Votes | Percentage | Graph |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes. | 2 | 50% | |
| No. | 1 | 25% | |
| Not sure. | 1 | 25% |
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 47 minutes later[^] [v] #633,396
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 4 minutes later, 52 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #633,397
It's a failing, but I love them anyway.
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 1 minute later, 54 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #633,398
wait a miniute no one says lyube except with a russhin asccent
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 10 years ago, 3 minutes later, 57 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #633,400
also because koo is spelled coo or coop or coup
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Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #633,404
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Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 4 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #633,407
@OP
Shtick.
Shtick.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 7 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #633,408
@OPTotal bulllllllshit.
The English of Shakespeare Illustrated in a Philological ...English of Shakespeare by George L Craik Professor of English literature Queens college Belfast
FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI replied with this 10 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #633,412
Wait, why do you say "any schoolboy can tell you" "'lube' becomes 'loob'"? Not every American father is an auto mechanic.
Sophie !MLHqI35Srs replied with this 10 years ago, 2 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #633,413
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
You appear to have experience in the use of motor oil as a sexual lubricant, however, hence you know of this at all.
You appear to have experience in the use of motor oil as a sexual lubricant, however, hence you know of this at all.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 10 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #633,414
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Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 10 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #633,419
@633,414 (A)
I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word, That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: It’s said like bed, not bead -- For goodness’ sake, don’t call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat… They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not the moth in mother, Nor both in bother, nor broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and lose -- Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart, Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Why, sakes alive! I’d learned to speak it when I was five.
And yet, to write it, the more I tried, I hadn’t learned it at fifty-five
I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, slough and through.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word, That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: It’s said like bed, not bead -- For goodness’ sake, don’t call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat… They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not the moth in mother, Nor both in bother, nor broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and lose -- Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart, Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Why, sakes alive! I’d learned to speak it when I was five.
And yet, to write it, the more I tried, I hadn’t learned it at fifty-five