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I think both are acceptable -- ['pju:mə] as well as ['pu:mə].
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Feb 01, 2009 9:32 am How do you pronounce "puma" |
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Hi Torsten,
I would go for the first one.
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:17 am How do you pronounce "puma"? |
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I would also go with the first pronunciation.
So you've got agreement on two continents. |
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:55 am How do you pronounce "puma" |
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Dear Torsten,
Hi,
I would go for the first one.So I think the fist one is right.
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:14 am How do you pronounce "puma"? |
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Hello Jamie,
Sometimes, I find it hard for me to distinguish between "I can" and "I can't". I think American people pronounce them almost the same. 
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| #7 (permalink) Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:32 am How do you pronounce "puma"? |
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| Infin1ty wrote: |
| Sometimes, I find it hard for me to distinguish between "I can" and "I can't". I think American people pronounce them almost the same. |
Some of the British pronounce it the same way. We can hear the difference and aren't confused.
Keep in mind what I read in the teacher's notes of one British ESL book I taught from in Europe:
Most of the British pronounce "can't" as [kant], and some of the British and most of the Americans pronounce "can't" as [kænt]. It doesn't matter which way a person pronounces this word, and it shouldn't cause any confusion either way, because usually neither nation pronounces the full vowel when they say "can". "Can" usually sounds like [kən] or [kn] in both countries.
So, if you hear an American or a Briton say, "I can go," it sounds like, "I [kn] go." We only pronounce the full vowel [a] or [æ] when we are saying "can't" or when we are really stressing the word "can". In both of those situations it's easy to hear. |
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| #8 (permalink) Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:40 am How do you pronounce "puma"? |
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Thank you Jamie for your detail explanation. Have a nice day! 
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