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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 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 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 * 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Some words with "au" and a short "a" sound are: laugh, sausage, laundry, fraud.
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No, 'au' does not make any sound like 'ou'. 'au' sounds as in 'Now'.
There are two OW pairs in downtown, that have the ou/ow sound as in cow and brown. The OW is created by OW and OU and sometimes by AU. Some examples are: OW words - now, plow, sow, clown, owl, drowsy OU words - out, cloud, count, doubt, house, route, sound, south AU words - kraut, gauss