/ju/ sound

 

Yod dropping

/ju/ is not a phoneme, but a composite vowel sound, as it can be analyzed into /j/ + /u/. /ju/ is used in  words like "cute", "few", "university",  and "music". Words with /ju/ include the following:

/ju/ words

with "y": 

you, youth

with "u": 

abuse, accumulate, amuse, argue, community, commute, computer, confuse, continue, Cuba, cube, cute, dispute, excuse, fuel, future, huge, human, humour, mule, Munich, museum, music, occupy, refuse, rescue, stimulate, Uganda, ukulele, Ukraine, unicorn, uniform, unique, united, university, usually, value, volume

French origin words: 

        queue, few, nephew, interview, review, view

Yod dropping

The sound /j/ is known as "yod". "Yod dropping" means pronouncing /ju/ as /u/. In standard American English, yod dropping happens after certain consonants, specifically /d, n, s, t, θ, z/. 

        /du/ dude, due, dew, duke, dune, introduce, produce, reduce

        /nu/ avenue, knew, new, news, nude, nuke, pneumonia, revenue

        /su/ assume, consumer, pseudonym, pursue, suit, suitable

        /tu/ attitude, opportunity, stew, student, substitute, tube, Tuesday, tune

        /θu/ enthusiasm

        /zu/ presume, resume

When /ju/ is unstressed it may sound /jə/:

 accurate, ambulance, consecutive, formula, failure, popular, regular