Grove Spelling Dictionary
a vowel with no colour

jajube or jujube?

graft: letter 2
Writtenjujube

JOO-joob

Jujube. Both syllables carry the same letter, u, but only the first is stressed, so the second is reduced and can sound like almost any vowel. Once the second u has been heard as a blur, the first one starts to look negotiable too, and a writer working from sound alone ends up rewriting both.

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