They have different pronunciation - as you have shown in your transcriptions,they both have the same pronouncation
in BrE : njuː
in AmE : nuː
They are not homophones, as the transcriptions show.Both are pronounced the same way (homophones),
No, you are not. Within any given dialect, knew and new are homophones. I think there was a possibility of misunderstanding in posts #2 and 3 - indeed, I misunderstood.Of course the BE pronunciation is different from the AE one, hence the different IPA representations. So if you compare BE to AE, they are not homophones.
But if you gave a BE speaker a piece of paper with "knew" and "new" written on it and had him or her pronounce both words, they would sound the same (/nju[FONT="]ɪ[/FONT]/), i.e. they would be homophones.
The same goes for an AE speaker. Both words would sound the same (/nu:/).
Or am I getting something wrong here?
How do we pronounce those words? I've heard both version /njuː/ and /nu:/ ? Does it depend largely on the speaker or dialect?
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