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00:00This is the uh sound.
00:03Keep watching to find out how it's pronounced in British English.
00:10Hi everybody and welcome back to Lean English.
00:17I'm Ed and I'm here to help you achieve your pronunciation goals.
00:22Before we start, remember to like this video if you find it useful and subscribe for more
00:27British English pronunciation lessons in the future.
00:32Now let's look at the uh sound in a bit more detail.
00:38Do you remember the ah sound which we looked at a couple of weeks ago?
00:43The uh sound is produced in a similar way with a tongue slightly more central.
00:49So first produce the ah sound.
00:53Now do it again, but this time relax your tongue slightly and produce a short sound instead.
01:01Uh, uh.
01:05Well done, you just produced the uh sound.
01:09This sound is produced with the tongue low and back and the lips relaxed.
01:14It's produced with less tension in the tongue and when we do this it creates a more centralised
01:20sound.
01:21This gives the sound its technical name, the open mid back unrounded vowel.
01:29Obviously, in real conversation we don't produce the ah sound first, but you can use this trick
01:37to find the correct mouth position.
01:40So try and remember the mouth position and produce the sound again.
01:44Now look at these words, can you identify the uh sound?
01:55Listen and see if you can hear it.
01:58The uh sound is usually spelt with the letters o or u, or combinations of the two.
02:21But be careful because there are lots of words which contain these letters but are pronounced differently.
02:29Such as follow, butcher, and borrow.
02:34Where the uh sound exists in received pronunciation is completely replaced with the uh sound in some
02:41accents.
02:42This is known as the foot strut split.
02:47In places where the split doesn't exist, like the north of England, the previous examples are pronounced butter, mother, country, flood, does.
03:02Consequently, you might hear some words pronounced differently depending on the accent.
03:09But for a consistent RP accent, remember to use the uh sound in these words.
03:16As always, you should check the pronunciation in a dictionary or imitate native speakers you
03:22know or trust if you're unsure which pronunciation to use.
03:28The uh sound may be confused with the r sound in the following minimal pairs.
03:36But, heart, come, calm, cut, cart, butter, barter, put, part.
03:57Remember to make the uh sound shorter and more relaxed.
04:02To avoid confusing it with the uh sound in these minimal pairs.
04:08Now let's practice.
04:10Listen and repeat after me.
04:13Monday comes after Sunday.
04:20The company's run out of stuff.
04:27A couple of onions for lunch.
04:35The gun was covered in blood.
04:42He doesn't have enough money.
04:49Where the uh sound exists in function words, it's usually replaced with the schwa sound in
04:56connected speech.
04:57For example, must.
05:01She must have got lost.
05:04Us.
05:06Let us in.
05:09Some.
05:10Can I have some more?
05:13This is known as the weak form and it helps us to stress sentences correctly.
05:20I recommend you watch my previous video on the schwa sound for more information about
05:24this.
05:25Well, that's the end of the lesson, but can you think of any more words that contain
05:31the uh sound?
05:33Let me know in the comments below and remember to like and subscribe for more videos in the
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05:39Thanks for watching.
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