SUE: Siw or Soo???

[TwatCat]

I never realised until today that people pronounce the name Sue differently. So is it:

Siw as in new or
Soo as in too?

I say Siw, but the Sue (Susan) I know, today said her name is pronounced Soo (Soosan) and I was mind blown. I always thought it was pronounced Siw (Siwsan) and our workplace was divided on the issue, about half and half of Siw vs Soo.

I have never come across Siwzan.

Soozan is Suzanne

I would say Soozun is Susan

no idea what you mean.#
i hope this is not another pork doesn't rhyme with fork thing.
to me few, too, new, sue, all rhyme.
what kind of accent do you have, or what region are you from.
just say it the way it's owner does.
not that i can see more than one way to say it.

In the East Midlands new is just noo, not nyew.

With my original accent few, due and new all have that y sound in them.

Sue, however, has only ever been soo for me.

Ah - must be them! I can’t describe it any other way than siw either - but it totally is a sound!

Or must be that then even, must preview!

@BernardsarenotalwaysSaints Soo, too, few & new all sound the same in my accent...
They sound different to me. Soo too have an ooooooowh sound. Whereas Few and new are short Fiw and Niw sounds. The oo in Soo and too are elongated.

i hope this is not another pork doesn't rhyme with fork thing.

It doesn't. Neither does boot rhyme with foot. In my accent - I know it does in others

I know exactly what you mean OP.....I remember people saying 'siw' or 'siwsan' when I was a child. I think it would sound a bit affected now. Everyone just says soo.

I'm confused by what sound siw is? What accent do you have op?

@iklboo It doesn't. Neither does boot rhyme with foot. In my accent - I know it does in others

Fork rhymes with pork

But I agree, boot definitely doesn't rhyme with foot. Boot has an ooooo sound. Foot has a short fūt sound.

@frazzledfatty I'm from Wales. Valleys. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Fork & pork definitely don't rhyme in my accent. Pork is pourk. Manchester here. I love differences in accents.

Boot doesn’t rhyme with foot, but my mind is blown that pork doesn’t necessarily rhyme with fork!

Ohhh, this is one of those pronunciation ones where the version you think is normal, is the one everyone else thinks is odd, so you're trying to explain the wrong one.

I can imagine a Welsh person saying Sooo and tooo with a really emphatic 'oooow' sound.

Most English people don't do that, so our soo (rhymes with too, to, two, new, shoe) is your siw. (We just have no idea what you mean when you write siw).

Siw like Siu Mai? Dim Sim dumpling of loveliness?

I'm South Walian - I say Siw. It rhymes with... well nothing really but maybe it's more like few than who.

It's Soo, not Seeyou. And fork and pork rhyme.

Knew it was valleys OP - I’m cardiff so say soo but I had friends from Porth’s voices in my head when I was thinking about it!

Few though - that does take you into the Syou realm. Like the way Hyacinth Bouquet would say suit as syoot, likewise tissue as tiss-you.

I think the siw sound is as there is a slight pause (minuscule) just before the w and the W is slightly more pronounced than in soo.

In my London accent fork rhymes with pork. Foot does not rhyme with boot.

But surely only a Welsh person would actually pronounce the 'w'?

It rhymes with Huw, which is pronounced different to Hugh, Huw is Hiw whereas Hugh is Hyou.

Same as Siw is Siw like Hiw. But it doesn't have that y sound after the s

forvo.com/word/huw/
This is the sound for Huw.

Maybe a Yew tree is different?
Yew doesn't rhyme with too. Yew is also like Yiw.

I need to hear a voice recording

Scottish: fork does not rhyme with pork. Boot rhymes with foot