How do the British pronounce flood?

How do the British pronounce flood?

Tips to improve your English pronunciation: Break ‘flood’ down into sounds: [FLUD] – say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.

How do you pronounce Flod?

Pronunciation

1. IPA: /ˈfloːð/
2. Rhymes: -oːð, -oð

What is plural flood?

1 flood /ˈflʌd/ noun. plural floods.

How do we pronounce?

What is the vowel sound for flood?

In ‘floor’, it’s AW, in ‘flood’ it’s UH. Look at the four words. Can you tell by looking which vowel sound it is?

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How is Draught pronounced?

Draught is a variant spelling of draft and is normally pronounced the same way, as [draft] or [drahft] or with a vowel somewhere between [a] and [ah]. A pronunciation [drawt] is sometimes heard for draught, perhaps because -aught is frequently pronounced [-awt] elsewhere, as in caught and taught.

Is floods singular or plural?

flood ​Definitions and Synonyms ​‌‌

singular	flood
plural	floods

Do we say a flood?

flood is usually applied to the overflow of a great body of water, as, for example, a river, although it may refer to any water that overflows an area: a flood along the river; a flood in a basement.

What are floods?

Floods are the most frequent type of natural disaster and occur when an overflow of water submerges land that is usually dry. Floods are often caused by heavy rainfall, rapid snowmelt or a storm surge from a tropical cyclone or tsunami in coastal areas.

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Why is flood pronounced Flud?

In Afrikaans the word for blood and flood is pronounced as blut and flut: “What happened was that the vowels of blood and flood shortened in the 16th century and had the vowel sound of put”.

How is OO in poor pronounced?

Bookmark this question. Show activity on this post. These three words (as well as many other, these are just examples) are all spelled with double “o”, so I guess all of them were pronounced with long /oː/ before the Great Vowel Shift.

What is the oo sound called?

goose /guːs/ The so-called “long oo” sound is an informal term that means the long sound of the digraph oo which is IPA phoneme /uː/. Examples: goose, school, or zoo.