Does "Dew" rhyme with view or do. Noticed that Broadway and opera singers use the first. Same for "new" .. is it noo?
Pronunciation Question
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 13, 2025 2:18 PM |
It rhymes with dew.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 19, 2025 12:31 PM |
Do. But some parts of America sure dee-yew love their diphthongs.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 19, 2025 12:34 PM |
OP, stage singers are trained to drop their jaws and heavily annunciate words. This allows for the words to be understood over the music and further away from the stage.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 19, 2025 4:58 PM |
Dew rhymes with View, not Voo. Same as News rhymes with cues and mews, not Booze.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 12, 2025 1:13 AM |
Don’t view and dew rhyme with each other?
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 12, 2025 1:15 AM |
R5 You are correct. Atlanta Constitution "Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Not the "Do"
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | July 12, 2025 1:18 AM |
[quote]Does "Dew" rhyme with view or do
Voodoo
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 12, 2025 1:34 AM |
In the U.S., isn’t it mainly “doo”? I’m Canadian and we say “dyoo”, as does Britain and the other Commonwealth countries.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 12, 2025 1:44 AM |
Speaking of dew, how 'bout some Morning Dew?
Rod Stewart does the vocals.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 12, 2025 2:11 AM |
I prefer Tullamore DEW
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 12, 2025 2:17 AM |
Oh, come on. Mountain Dyoo sounds ridiculous.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 12, 2025 2:17 AM |
R11 Not if you say it quickly.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 12, 2025 4:10 PM |
It's not Mountain Doo, r11.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 12, 2025 4:13 PM |
Even more so if you say it quickly
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 12, 2025 4:14 PM |
Friend is an anchor at major market station. In newscast he said "the Clinton era," pronouncing it EH-ruh. Director later told him it's EER-uh. If you say "EH-ruh," viewers hear is as "error" - Clinton's mistake.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 12, 2025 5:52 PM |
"Dyoo" was THE only approved RP and Mid-Atlantic pronunciation.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 12, 2025 6:07 PM |
Like EWWWWW
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 12, 2025 6:10 PM |
People that say Mountain Dyo are, well, you know.
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 12, 2025 7:02 PM |
It’s that Gen X speak. Like double TT is “bi-n for bitten. There’s just an “uh” in there instead of the even bare attempt at doing the real TT with the tongue to the back of your front teeth.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 13, 2025 6:14 AM |
Isn’t dropping the Ts a Cockney thing?
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 13, 2025 2:18 PM |