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during is always juring... is there anyone out there who still has a d sound out in front?
The change of tyu, dyu to chu, ju in British English has gone through three stages. At the beginning of the 20th century good speakers only used it in words like 'picture' (pikcha): the pronunciation piktya or piktyua would have been old-fashioned even then.
The old RP accent had tyu, dyu in all other cases.
The next change was for them to become chu, ju in unstressed syllables, as in fortune and residue. This is how I speak when careful.
The latest change is the same in stressed syllables: tune and dune are now choon and joon. This is, I think, still regarded as a bit sub-standard, and I'd only use them casually (and might tend to resay if I noticed).
However, 'during' being such a common word, it is probably in advance of the change, and I find I always say juring. Only if I was being exceptionally careful would I say dyuring.
Once I caught myself hypercorrecting jury to dyury.
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