cbutter2
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- Feb 7, 2017
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- Interested in Language
- Native Language
- American English
- Home Country
- United States
- Current Location
- United States
For 70 years I have pronounced "food" in a manner rhyming it with crude, lewd, mood. I have begun noticing television commercials as if the word food rhymed with good, could, wood. At the same time, these commercials pronounce "good" as if it rhymed with mud or bud. Is there a vowel shift going on here? I have lived in a variety of regions of the US, but if I ever heard anyone pronounce these words as they do in the commercials. I'm looking for enlightenment. What do I teach my students?