Homework help please....words containing 'OU' please (as in could, should...)

[SlightlyMadSweden]

DTDs have to write wordlists each week focusing on a different sound(s).

This week we have words containing "ou" with th sound 'u'. We are really struggling...any other suggestions

Should
Could
Would
Rough

cough
bought
tough
drought

oops did you mean 'u' as in oooooo?

if so, ignore all those!

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Not understand.

Rough ou is not same as could ou, is it?

loughborough (the first 'ou' not the second)

enough
tough

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flour
sour
colour

oh ignore mine also

Ah, I think it depends where you live as to pronunciation!

With a northern accent the u sound in could is the same as the u sound in rough

complicateder and complicateder

Loughborough - definitely has two different pronunciations for the "ou" bit when i say it

Words containing the phenome "ou" that say the sound "u" (not 'oooo'). The example given is could, should & would.

Rough is one isn't it (pronounced ruff)?

Back in 5mins have to get DD3 to bed.

route
ghoul
frou-frou
joule/kilojoule
kagoule
soup
troupe
you
boules
cougar

Lots of these are really French, but are used in English.

singersgirl - they are all "oo" sounds. Think Op needs to OU to say u

rough definitely different to should. am tryin to think of more examples and failing...

as in through?

sounding the u

arduous????

My name is Bellabear and I am a Southerner!

marvalous
wonderous
ambitious
ambidextrous
famous

However can we teach children this tricky language? poor souls - oops there's another OU - but not the right OU.. it beats me, now I come to think about it, how anyone ever learns it!

Where I live, 'rough' is pronounced completely differently to 'could'.

The 'ous' ending on Elasticbandstand's words is a schwa rather than either an 'oo' as in 'soup', an 'oo' as in wood, stood or should, or an 'u' as in rough.

Group??

nauseous