>>Finally. Yes, that's how I learned that - except there's a length. You have a short one in pull, bull, wolf and a long one in wool, fool, moot, root, hoot, boot, clue, do. My question was how would you write the short one so that it's not read as either uh nor yoo nor oo, but just as a short {...} as in pull, bull, wolf. Now you supply a character of two to replace the braces.
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>You pronounce 'wool' the same as 'fool' ??

Shouldn't I?