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Sounds of English
by Sharon Widmayer and Holly Gray
The sounds of hoot and hood.
We make the sound in "hoot" (/u/) with our really rounded. Sing "ooh, baby, baby" or pretend you are going to kiss someone.
Here is a picture of
someone making this sound.
See how round her lips are.
See here that when she says "hood", her lips are more relaxed.
"hoot" sounds:
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who'd
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pool
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Luke
"hood" sounds:
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hood
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pull
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look
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