13 Feb 2011 21:39
When you read the word ugh, what do you hear?
- [ʌg], which rhymes with mug
- [ʊx], [ʌx], [ɯx], or [ɯχ], ending with a brief harbinger-of-spitting sound
- either of the above, depending on context, but sometimes you can’t tell
If you answered [ʌg], as I would have before I began thinking too hard, then how would you spell the spitty word? Similar questions with blech.
March 8th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
Hmm. Neither, in fact, I have (as far back as I can remember), always read it as [uw].
I am, as near as I can tell, the only person in my circle of peers who reads it that way.