Re: The "u" and "v" in older written English is confvsing

On May 27, 7:00 am, Ruud Harmsen <realemailons...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IGrP0jGhkMw&feature=related
John Lennon. At 1:47 he says "I was st st stunned, you know". It
almost sounds (to my ears, anyway) as if he said "stoned",

Nah! Listen to Joe Cocker's "Let's go get stoned" or Bob Dylan's
"Everybody must get stoned". Lennon's "stunned" can't be mistaken for
those.

Goes to show it is similar to [o].

Yes; it has [ond].

But in this interview too, I don't find a single occurrence of short
/u/! It must be really rare in English.

"Do you - you - feel like I do?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_H1xzJbiUU

The 2nd "you" and last "do" have [u].
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