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The words bag, hat, and has all have short A sounds.

The word was has either a short O or short U sound (woz, wuz).

The word want can have three different sounds, none of them a short A:

- short O as in font

- caret O as in haunt (British English)

- short U (colloquial English, to rhyme with hunt)

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Yes, "bag," "hat," "has," and "have" have short 'a' sounds. These words follow the pronunciation rule where the letter 'a' is pronounced as a short vowel sound.

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