Question about IT

[vivazebool]

I am almost finished reading IT. What an incredible story!

How do you pronounce CHÜD? Can someone give me another word that it rhymes with?

Thanks a bunch.

[delores 74]

I've looked online and can only find explanations of it, not specifically how to pronounce it. When I read it, I pronounced it Chud, rhymes with dud. Now that I think about it, it could be pronounced to rhyme with mood.

[hipmamajen]

I don't know, I was saying it in my head like it rhymed with "should." But, I have no reason to believe that's correct. Now I'm curious...

[Damaris]

I think it's supposed to be pronounced "chewed" or maybe "shooed" but I was never sure, either. I just pronounced it "chud" (rhymes with "blood") and called it good. :laugh:

[bopropadop]

I've always pronounced it like "mud." And after three readings of It, I'll have a hard time changing if I'm wrong...

[thymeoperator]

i read it to rhyme with 'mood' because the 'u' has an umlat over it and in german that would be a long 'u'. it reminds me of something lovecraft would come up with...or is it something he made up and that's why i'm thinking of it?

[vivazebool]

I think it's supposed to be pronounced "chewed" or maybe "shooed" but I was never sure, either. I just pronounced it "chud" (rhymes with "blood") and called it good. :laugh:

Looks like you're right. I did a little search through Merriam-Webster's:

\ ü \ as in rule, youth, union \'yün-y&n\, few \'fyü\. As an unstressed vowel before another vowel, \ü\ is often pronounced as a schwa with slight lip rounding that is separated from the following vowel by the glide \w\, as valuing \'val-y&-wi[ng]\. This reduced variant is not usually shown at individual entries. Younger speakers of American English often use a more centralized and less rounded pronunciation of \ü\ in certain words (as news and musician), both in stressed and especially in unstressed syllables.

[JohnDalglish]

I've always pronounced it like "mud." And after three readings of It, I'll have a hard time changing if I'm wrong...

Hi,

Me too, but you've raised a question here.

Has anyone heard the audiobook perhaps?

Long days and pleasant nights

[thymeoperator]

Looks like you're right. I did a little search through Merriam-Webster's:

\ ü \ as in rule, youth, union \'yün-y&n\, few \'fyü\. As an unstressed vowel before another vowel, \ü\ is often pronounced as a schwa with slight lip rounding that is separated from the following vowel by the glide \w\, as valuing \'val-y&-wi[ng]\. This reduced variant is not usually shown at individual entries. Younger speakers of American English often use a more centralized and less rounded pronunciation of \ü\ in certain words (as news and musician), both in stressed and especially in unstressed syllables.

while all very interesting, what does that mean, for those of us who don't understand that stuff? does that make it rhyme with 'chewed' or 'mud' or 'good' ?

[vivazebool]

while all very interesting, what does that mean, for those of us who don't understand that stuff? does that make it rhyme with 'chewed' or 'mud' or 'good' ?

CHÜD rhymes with chewed.

[Srbo]

Here on the MB, we have a category for members with over ten thousand posts that`s called Übermember ( and soon, Sai John Dalglish will get there :smile2:)
Über is also a german word, and however you prounance the Ü in that word, that`s how you prounance it in CHÜD.
So, it would be like a longer u.

Chuuud.

[psj77]

dictionary.com had this when i did a search.

Chud

Chud\, v. t. [Cf. Chew, Cud.] To champ; to bite. [Obs.] --A. Stafford.

[tillyn]

If you bought the book it on audio it probably would cost an arm and a leg, better off reading it and pronouce Chud the way you want.

[Wynter_21]

Arg, I always imagined it being "mud". "Chewed" sounds stupid! :(

[JRLauer]

I had always pronounced it like mud as well, but the German version (the two dots over the U) would turn it into chewed.

Speaking of CHUD, did anyone here ever see the movie CHUD?

[psj77]

I had always pronounced it like mud as well, but the German version (the two dots over the U) would turn it into chewed.

Speaking of CHUD, did anyone here ever see the movie CHUD?

I have, and there is a reference to Chud in the movie Clerks two. I forget the exact quote but Dante is talking to Randall about getting a girl pregnant and Randall refers to the baby as "your hideous chud of a kid"

[JRLauer]

I have, and there is a reference to Chud in the movie Clerks two. I forget the exact quote but Dante is talking to Randall about getting a girl pregnant and Randall refers to the baby as "your hideous chud of a kid"

I saw Clerks too, that was a funny movie. Randall cracks me up with his "I don't give a damn about anything" attitude.

[LisaFromBorders]

"chewed" is the correct pronunciation, but we're READERS here. Chud looks good in print, and if you "mispronounce" it to your minds other ear while reading, that's groovy. Make it right for you, so the meaning of the word gets through right. I hear Chud as in Mud, because it has a basic, primal sound to me.

[randallFlaggfan1]

Well, I always thought to pronounce it as if it rhymed with 'mud' (as many of you've said,) but after some close scrutiny I've come to pronounce the word like an elongated cheewdd....

[ZBliss]

If you're reading the book aloud you can be like me and mumble a little bit. "Chapter 12: The Ritual of Chwejudmmm"

[randallFlaggfan1]

This may seem a bit strange, but I ALWAYS read aloud to myself....

[jeddah]

I remember a 1980s (hellz, it could even have been 1970s) horror movie called CHUD which was essentially things that looked like flukeman from the X-Files - I wondered if they were referring to that film in Clerks.
Bearing in mind what the ritual entails, I think 'chewed' as a way of pronouncing Chud is rather apt. :tongue:

[RandomMan]

Even now that I have clearity that I have been mispronouncing it for all of these years...It will still be CHUD as in mud. My brain will not allow it to be any other way.

[blunthead]

I pronounce CHUD just like you do.