This week, I have had the same pronunciation issue in three different groups. The students in these groups were mispronouncing words like 'publish', 'publication' and 'publicity'. They said it with either an /u:/ or an /u/ sound instead of the standard /ʌ/. I told them to think of public as the word origin for all of these words. Well, that didn't seem to help much. Then I told them to think of 'pub'. That did the trick! No more 'u' mistakes were made:)
I can only hope that they will not come across words like 'puberty' or 'pubic hair' as those would undoubtedly mess up things a good deal.
A bit more detailed list about the pronunciation of the letter 'u' in different words can be found here.
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