When babies are learning a new language,
they often repeat the last word that they hear in a sentence.
When I used to clean up my kid after dinner I would say, "Let's get you cleaned up."
And guess what word he used to say back to me?
It wasn't "up."
It was "dup."
The ending D linked onto the beginning vowel.
Linking is so common in American English that he heard that unit as a word.
And we love linking in American English. So make sure you take ending consonants and
link them onto beginning vowels. So rather than "cleaned up" , think "cleannnnnndup!"
Cleaned up.