Why ew is the wrong way to write this u
long-uThe pu- of pubescent says pyoo. The y in it has no letter of its own.
heard aspewbescent
spelledpubescent
saidpyoo-BESS-unt
pubescent, with a plain u.
Ew is what English uses at the end of a word or a syllable: new, few, stew, pewter. Inside a Latin borrowing the same sound stays a single u, as it does in pupil, in cubic and in pubis, which is the noun this word was built on.
Four more
pubessent pubescant pewbessent pyoubessent
The file is a short one. All 5 spellings of pubescent.