Pronounce "tuum" for me

[Wonko_the_Sane]

I’m not sure. It’s soooo difficult to communicate pronunciation by a written medium. (Also, it has been waaaaay to long since I have had a trustworthy Latin speaker to ask in person) But here is my take:

*Tuum *contains two short u’s in a row, which I suppose could sound like a long u. But they are distinct vowels and syllables – *uu *is not a Latin dipthong (*ae, au, oe, *sometimes ui), so both should be pronounced. I would not call it a “glottal stop”, but maybe an elision?

The best example I can give for correct* pronunciation is that I believe it should sound like To whom [it may concern], if you take out the breathed sound of the wh in whom.

Or maybe if you reverse the old *West Side Story *comraderie oath, “Womb to tomb”, a la “Tomb to womb” – To me, *tuum *should sound like “to womb” (but pronounced quickly enough that it does not sound like two words).

(* I admit, if I’m being sloppy and not paying attention, I probably fall into the long-short combo or “too-um”)

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…Interesting…

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Wheres the Holy Father when you need him…

 

[Evan]

When I took Latin at Baker High (a secular high school) and Portland State U (a secular university) we learned the classical pronunciations. Not the ecclesial. Our typical uu word was EQUUS.

Pronounced a kwoo oos.

But I have never figured out Ecclesial pronunciation.

 

[Deacon_Ed_B]

Tuum is pronounced two and uum as in womb.
Deacon ed B

 

[Ghoti]

For what it’s worth…

My high school motto was “Diliges Dominum Deum Tuum”, pronounced roughly “Dee-lee-jes Do-mee-noom day-oom Too-oom” by the good Fathers, and “dilly-jiz Dommin-um Day-um too-um” by the student body. We all made the *tuum *as two, um, syllables.

 

[ruslan]

Here’s a guide to Latin from Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi:

Latin

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