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Number 42: Up
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For this word,
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we have the UH as an butter vowel
and the P consonant -- Up, up.
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P is a stop consonant, which means we
stop the air - 'up' - and release it.
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The release is very light --
Up, up.
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Sometimes we don't release stop consonants,
like if it's at the end of a thought group:
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What's up?
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There, I'm not releasing the P: What's up?
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Also, we often skip the release if the
next word begins with a consonant sound:
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What's up, mom?
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My lips came together for the P, but
then, when they parted, rather than
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the light escape of air, I just
went right into the M sound.
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