worlds in "oo"
Do you have, in Zild, different pronunciations for hoof, roof, cooper, and some others, as we have here? One is to make the "oo" the same as in "tooth"; the other makes it like the "u" in "put". The short sound is more used by old people and may be dying out, although a friend of mine in high school, whose name was Cooper, used to get highly incensed if anyone pronounced it like Gary Cooper, because he and his family used the other pronunciation (his name was A.B. Cooper IV, so that tells you something).