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The uh sound.  This is very related to the uh as in 'butter,' but there's a difference in the tongue position, and a difference in the lip position.  What the tongue does, is it comes more forward than it does for the uh {butter} sound, and it also raises a little bit in the back.  But it doesn't touch the roof of the mouth.  Uh, uh.  So it comes up a little bit in the back and then forward.  The lips, as you can see, uh, they come out a little bit, and the corners come in just a little bit.  Uh {butter}, uh {full}, uh {butter}, uh {full}.  Uh, butter -- uh, should, could, full.  Sample words:  full, could.  Sample sentence:  You should look at that woman's foot.

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