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Originally Posted by Rusty
The part I said about pronouncing 'w' like the 'oo' in boot is so that Raji would get the idea that it is pronounced the same way as in English. Most English speakers don't realize that the 'w' is very nearly an 'oo' sound, followed by a vowel (or diphthong). For example, many Spanish-English dictionaries give 'uáter' as the approximate English pronunciation of water, where u = oo.
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OK, but "oo" in "boot" is not followed by a vowel. So, why do you say that
boot contents a /w/ sound? How would you transcribe phonetically "boot"?