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Long U Sound Words
These words have stress on the 1st syllable.
| Long U Sound | Y + Long U Sound |
| attitude | annual |
| boost | curious |
| choose | document |
| duty | formula |
| influenced | furious |
| jewelry | genuine |
| lucid | human |
| move | humor |
| neutral | pure |
| numeral | regular |
| proof | stimulate |
| rule | union |
| sue | value |
| zoom | volume |
* this word is commonly reduced to fig-yur (a schwa sound)
Long U with stress on the 2nd syllable and 3rd syllable: approve, recruiter, reduce, nonconclusive, opportunity
Y + Long U with stress on the 2nd syllable: community, continuous, contribute, debut, evaluate, executive, humanity, particular, ridiculous, security
Y + Long U with stress on the 3rd and 4th syllable: distribution, formulaic, occupation, evaluation, evacuation
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