hello and welcome to speak American English with Lyman Holton my name is
Lyman Holton in this lesson we're going to talk about
American English pronunciation sound 39 of the 44 sounds that comprise American
English we have 1 2 3 4 4 letter and letter combinations for one sound
what is the sound what could this sound be how about such as Oh in the word 1 1
now if you're from Korea you look at this and you might think it's 1 1 no I'm
talking about 1 as in the past tense of the word win to win a race I won the
race last year won what uh what what what what well now
this is kind of a hard one to hear in some of these in some of these words so
let's try to work through them oh oh now you know oo comes in different sounds
well here it's the word Oh what look what club crook look crook Plouffe is
was I think about horses hook the foot of a horse it's actually a hoof the foot
of a cow is also a hoof we call that a book but it's a split hoof like that of
a camel or a goat hoof one hoof to hooves a crook while a crook is someone
who is not honest they're going to cheat you out of there out of your money if
they can't they're a crook book crook we have oh you a cousin cuz it
a cousin now if your father or mother has brothers or sisters and they have
children those children are your cousin whether it's a male or female boy or
girl they're called a cousin your cousin's
cousin the word ruff-ruff-ruff g8 sounds like f ruff now maybe you have
very smooth skin you put lotion on your skin oh it's a nice and smooth or maybe
you have dry chapped skin and it would be rough rough right like sandpaper
rough mmm when a man doesn't shave he has a rough beard you okay it makes the
sound in the book the bull beau a male buh-bye cattle a cow a Danny cow mullet
mullet now mullet means more than one thing but one of the things that mullet
means is do you recall the popularity of a mullet haircut back in the I think it
was in the 90s they were popular maybe the late 80s into the 90s they had long
hair a person would have long hair in the back and short hair in the front a
mullet at the time people thought they look great today so much I don't think
so okay we have one one one hook crook cousin ruff Bowl mullet that's the end
of this lesson thank you for watching this video and I
look forward to seeing you at our next lesson goodbye for now