Pet peeve- do you say worlds like “new” like ‘noo’ or ‘new’

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More and more I’m hearing people pronounce that sound like an ‘oo’
stoodent instead of stew-dent
poor instead of pure

this seems to be more in younger people now.

what way do you say it?

I’m trying to think of other words like it but that’s 2 I’ve heard today.
I guess another would be toob or tube

Well I don't say "worlds" when I say words for starters.

Good one

Thanks for taking the time to write that, I’m sure you feel great about yourself now pointing that out.

With an Ew sound. New, stew dent.

Its regional and dialectal, although could be on the increase as you say. Areas around Notts and also the Lothians (greater Edinburgh essentially) have this is their accent. But do you say soot for suit? Because that's the same thing. Saying it syoot or nyews is called palatisation in linguistics.

Toosday. I did know someone who did the noo thing. Think he was from Derby so no idea if it was a him thing or a Derby thing.

A little sensitive re a mildly amusing comment on the way you write, given you started a thread to slag off the way people speak. 🤣

I’m not slagging it off, I’m genuinely curious about it.

but the catty women of mumsnet are always about

My grandad used to say Toosday and stoodent, he was originally from Sutton in Ashfield and would have been over 100 now so it’s not a new thing.

Yep, exactly the area of Notts I was thinking of!

Noo York
Noo Jersey
But nyew shoes. Bloo shoes if they're blue though.

Pyure, never poor
Stewdent, never stoodent
Tyoosday, never Toosday or Chewsday
Dyoo, not jew or doo

Afflooent, not aff-lyooent
Flooent, not fl-yooent

Is it an Essex twang?

But then in London "student" is pronounced Shhhudent

It's a Norfolk accent.

England has a multitude of accents. Really fascinating.

No different to any other country in that respect.

This all reminds me of Miranda.

Tyoooos-day.