Sow and sew Is there any difference between the pronunciation of these two words? I know that they have different meanings, but it's really weird to think they sound almost the same. If we think about other words with almost the same words, we don't find a pattern which we can follow in order to pronounce these words properly. For example: new, few, crew, pew, mew, blew, threw. In all of them the U sound is proheminent. But when it comes to "sew", it sounds like an O, which is really weird to speak. Everytime I think about this word I can't help but thinking that's something strange to pronounce.