MY Asian language expert, Son-in-law, who speaks Canton, Mandarin, Korean and Japanese...most “fluently” says it is the short /u/ such as “cunning” or “stunt”.
War Eagle!
My question is if it will also be banned here on FR. I suspect it will, but it’s not 8chan...
Cletus - he’s correct for mandarin, not sure on cantonese/korean, but in Japanese it is pronounced ‘coon’ as in raccoon.
My wife is Japanese and between the shows she and my daughters watch I hear it all the time. Alas - my Wife never used it with me even when we were dating :(
So Cletus-kuhn would sound like Cletus-coon.