Last time (here) I made a silly mistake, but it was a one-letter typo which people will either have missed or overlooked or not cared about: I announced a *UL* chart and wrote about another chart entirely.
Here now is the *UL* one – though as with the other one, it is not meant to be part of the book:
And here's a first draft of the resulting text:
The sounds /ʊ/ and /jʊ/ – 80%
This
vowel, either preceded or not by a /j/ glide (in largely predictable
contexts), is present in a majority of *UL* words (although, because
of the exclusions outlined in the Introduction , it is
outnumbered in this collection by words listed in the next
section).
The sound /ʌ/ – 16%
This represents an unusually low proportion for a 2nd-ranked phoneme.The sounds /u:/ and /ju:/ – 3%
This vowel, either preceded or not by a /j/ glide (in largely predictable contexts), accounts for very few words. The /l/ is almost always sounded, except in some names (such as Leverhulme – /li:vəhju:m/).The sounds /ə/ and /jə/ – percentage negligible
In
the Macmillan
English Dictionary only
one *UL* word is transcribed with the sound /jə/ (formula).
But as the note to that word says, many words with the sound /jʊ/
can often be heard with the /jə/
sound.
