One example of a long "a" word spelled with "au" is "faucet."
The OU in sought has the AW sound (caret O), as in bought and thought. This is widely spelled as AU or AW. In US English, many words ending in -ong have an -awng sound. Some words with OR are pronounced the same in British English. Some words with this vowel sound are: AW words - claw, brawl, lawn, awed AU words - caught, taught, taut OU words - ought, wrought OA words - broad O words - on, long, song, moll, john, offer A words - ball, fall
Some words that contain "aw" are: dawn, draw, saw. Some words that contain "au" are: author, fault, haunt.
Some words with "au" and a short "a" sound are: laugh, sausage, laundry, fraud.
The word out has a special sound, the vowel pair OU/OW as in cow, count, clout, and other words. They are mostly ou/ow but also the word sauerkraut, which has 2 of them spelled AU.
The short O sound is pronounced generally as 'aah'. -- O words Lots of words spelled with the letter O have the short O sound: ox, odd, hot, pot, dot, cot, lot, not, spot, cop, pop, top, stop, mob, snob, rob, Opera, operate, object, olive, ostrich, occupy, bobcat, monster, modern, popular, positive. -- A words Some words can have a similar short O sound but are not spelled with the letter O. Examples are: ma, pa, mafia, swab, waffle, watch * The similar words with OR and AW are caret O (or, all, force) or umlaut A (car, calm) rather than a short O sound. Most of these words are spelled with or, au, ou, or al/all.
chalk, talk, walk, stalk, balk
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Some words with 'au' in them are maul, caul, cauliflower, caterwaul, aubergine, caught, taught, flautist...
The OU in mouse has the AW sound (caret O), as in house and sprout. This is widely spelled as AU or AW. In US English, many words ending in -ong have an -awng sound. Some words with OR are pronounced the same in British English. Some words with this vowel sound are: AW words - claw, brawl, lawn, awed AU words - caught, taught, taut OA words - broad O words - on, long, song, moll, john A words - ball, fall
The word include laugh, laughter, and one pronunciation each of aunt and draught (ant, draft). There are many more words that have an AW sound, which is a caret O.
The OU in sought has the AW sound (caret O), as in bought and thought. This is widely spelled as AU or AW. In US English, many words ending in -ong have an -awng sound. Some words with OR are pronounced the same in British English. Some words with this vowel sound are: AW words - claw, brawl, lawn, awed AU words - caught, taught, taut OU words - ought, wrought OA words - broad O words - on, long, song, moll, john, offer A words - ball, fall
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Some words that contain "aw" are: dawn, draw, saw. Some words that contain "au" are: author, fault, haunt.
Some words with "au" and a short "a" sound are: laugh, sausage, laundry, fraud.
The GH is silent in several spellings: I words (long I) : high, sigh, light, night AI words (long A) : straight EI words (long A) : weigh, eight, neighbor AU and OU words (AW) : bought, fought, caught, daughter, naughty OU words (OW) : bough, plough OU words (long O): dough, though
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