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⟨u-e⟩

From Teflpedia

u-e is a split vowel digraph found in English.

This quite reliably represents long U sound before most letters. This is accompanied by a yod sound if the sound before is /b/, /f/, /g/, /h/, /k/, /m/, /p/, or /v/. Sometimes with /n/ and /d/ (but yod dropping).

  • lube, tube
  • puce
  • dude
  • G: huge
  • gu: fugue
  • puke, fluke
  • rule
  • flume
  • tune
  • dupe
  • qu: tuque
  • use, fuse
  • mute
  • interfluve
  • fuze


Before R[edit | edit source]

With R, this represents ᴄᴜʀᴇ vowel phoneme /ʊə/, with an R in rhotic accents, e.g. cure, pure, etc. This is covered at ⟨ure⟩.

High frequency exceptions[edit | edit source]

Lettuce has the ᴋɪᴛ vowel, as does minute (unit of time).

Include: busy.

Note that debuted, which is a French-to-English loan, is conjugated from debut (via French début) so is ⟨d⟩⟨e⟩⟨b⟩⟨ut⟩{ed}