Talk:u

The meaning "you" of u, in Internet and SMS slang, should be included here. Should that be marked as slang or Internet? Jon Harald Søby 15:20, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Letter name pronunciation audio under "Phoneme"

In English > Pronunciation > Phoneme there are two audio pronunciations that both sound to me like pronunciations of the name of the letter rather than any of the sounds the letter commonly makes when in a word. Should they be moved to the "Letter name" section, or are they under "Phoneme" purposefully? - excarnateSojourner (talk|contrib) 21:40, 15 November 2021 (UTC)

I'm not sure what that section is supposed to be about, but the letter does regularly sound its name in words like ukelele and ubiquitous, however you handle the discontiguous digraph u_e. --RichardW57 (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

I did wonder if the paragraph was supposed to be about what the notation /u/ encompassed for English, but I'd then expect to see separate senses for the vowel phonemes of good and mood. If we go beyond IPA, we might then get a sense for the vowel phoneme of blood. --RichardW57 (talk) 22:39, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

I think the phonemes that ‹u› commonly represents are /ju:/, /u:/, /ʊ/, /ʌ/, /ə/. Of course, given the unfortunate nature of English spelling there are others: it represents /ɪ/ in "busy", /ɛ/ in "bury", etc. But the five above are the normal ones. These could be given under "phoneme". 90.186.170.69 02:36, 26 September 2023 (UTC)

Minimal pairs /(j)u/

E.g., beauty vs booty https://www.britishaccentacademy.com/minimal-pairs/cuecoo.html JMGN (talk) 17:24, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Internet/text message slang?

To pick up, in a sense, on Jon Harald's comment from above, almost 20 years later – though u as an abbreviation for you is clearly slang, I wonder if it is indeed Internet/text message slang, as currently claimed by this and related entries. I recall that it was not uncommon at least in the early 90s, before either the Internet or text messages were much of a thing, and it may well have been in slang use before that. 2003:D5:AF3B:B800:2049:BEBE:39CC:FEB8 12:58, 20 October 2024 (UTC)