Grove Spelling Dictionary
the long u

jewjube

graft: letters 2, 3
Writtenjujube

JOO-joob

Ew is how English writes the long u when it ends a syllable: new, few, chew. Here the vowel is followed by a consonant inside the same syllable, and in that position English writes it u.

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