Which accents have “tune” sounds like “tyoon”, with a Y sound after the T?

Modern RP / Standard Southern British, Bristol / Southwest English, West Country English, London / Estuary English, Multicultural London English, Birmingham / West Midlands English, Scouse / Liverpool English, Mancunian English, South Yorkshire English, West Yorkshire English, Geordie / Tyneside English, Central Scottish English, Highland Scottish English, South Wales English, Northern Irish English, Cork English, East Irish English, Texas English, Newfoundland English, Jamaican English / Patwa continuum, Bajan English, Queensland Australian English, New Zealand English, Johannesburg South African English, Delhi Indian English, Nigerian English, Kenyan English, Pakistani English, Singapore English, Hong Kong English, Melbourne / Southern Australian English, Ghanaian English, Trinidadian English, Malaysian English, Perth / Western Australian English, Chennai / South Indian English, Sri Lankan English, Spanish-accented English, French-accented English, German-accented English, Italian-accented English, Russian-accented English.

Which accents have “tune” sounds like “toon”, without a Y sound?

Southern Appalachian English, New York City English, California English, Texas English, Boston / Eastern New England English, Chicago / Inland North English, Toronto Canadian English, Midland American English, African American English, Hawaiian English, Philadelphia English, New Orleans English, Vancouver / Western Canadian English, Liberian English, Mandarin-accented English.

Which accents have “tune” sounds like “choon”, with a CH sound at the start?

Modern RP / Standard Southern British, Bristol / Southwest English, West Country English, London / Estuary English, Multicultural London English, Birmingham / West Midlands English, Scouse / Liverpool English, Mancunian English, South Yorkshire English, West Yorkshire English, Geordie / Tyneside English, South Wales English, Queensland Australian English, New Zealand English, Philippine English, Melbourne / Southern Australian English, Perth / Western Australian English, Brazilian Portuguese-accented English, Japanese-accented English.

Which accents have “tune” is pronounced more than one way?

Japanese-accented English, Mandarin-accented English.

Pronunciation

Tune, Toon or Choon? The Y After a Consonant

Americans say “toon”, “noos” and “dook” — the Y sound has dropped out after T, D and N. Britain, Ireland and Australia keep it or blend it into the consonant, giving “choon” and “Chuesday”. Wales and the American South preserve the full “tyoon” most consistently.

The question, as everyone in the survey sees it

Which is closest to how you naturally say “tune”?
Choose the closest sound, even if none is a perfect spelling.

“Tyoon” — with a Y sound
“Toon” — without a Y sound
“Choon” — with a CH-like start
I use more than one
I cannot tell

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Which accents do what

Each accent profile in the survey has an expected answer to this question. Where a profile allows more than one answer, the region genuinely varies.

“Tyoon” — with a Y sound

In these profiles, “tune” sounds like “tyoon”, with a Y sound after the T.

“Toon” — without a Y sound

In these profiles, “tune” sounds like “toon”, without a Y sound.

“Choon” — with a CH-like start

In these profiles, “tune” sounds like “choon”, with a CH sound at the start.

I use more than one

In these profiles, “tune” is pronounced more than one way.

Japanese-accented English
Mandarin-accented English

Why this question is in the survey

Pronunciation questions carry more weight in the scoring than vocabulary questions do, because they are much harder to change deliberately. People move house and pick up new words; the vowel system learned in childhood tends to stay. Every answer is stored with a coarse map cell for the town you grew up in, and a region is coloured in once at least two people there have answered.

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