You cannot write the y you can hear
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 ascyooneate
spelledcuneate
saidKYOO-nee-ayt
cuneate. No y anywhere in it.
This is the most honest rendering in the file, because it writes down exactly what the mouth does. English inserts a y sound between most consonants and a long u, so cuneate really does begin kyoo. The spelling simply refuses to record it, in this word as in cure, cube and curious.
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