Does the ew of cewneate belong in this word?
long-uThe kyoo at the start of cuneate is one letter in writing and two sounds in speech. Anything written out for that y is going to be wrong.
heard ascewneate
spelledcuneate
saidKYOO-nee-ayt
No. It is written cuneate, with a plain u.
Ew is the ordinary English way of writing this sound at the end of a word, in new, in stew, in few. Inside a word, and especially in a word taken straight from Latin, the same sound is normally just a u. Cuneate never had a w in it in any language.
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