ball,bowl
scaw bra shaw bawl maul
A homophone of the word "ball" is "bawl." These words sound the same but have different meanings.
Yes, the word "bawl" has a short "o" sound. It is pronounced like "b-awl" with the emphasis on the first syllable.
It has neither. Most words with -all have the AW sound, as in bawl and crawl.
The O in the word long may be a short vowel, but more usually an AW sound (caret O) as seen in the rhyming words song, strong, and wrong. This AW sound is seen in words such as taught, sought, dawn, ball (bawl), and daughter.
The children around here mostly bawl.
The O in the word song may be a short vowel, but more usually an AW sound (caret O) as seen in the rhyming words long, strong, and wrong. This AW sound is seen in words such as taught, sought, dawn, ball (bawl), and daughter.
You might mean homonyms. Homonyms are different words that sound the same but have different meaning. Examples are: two and too, bite and bight, ball and bawl.
No. Some words spelled with -all have an AW/OR vowel sound (caret O), and rhyme with awl. Ball is a homophone of "bawl." * note that some words, such as ballast and ballet, do have a short A vowel sound.
The homophones for "bawl" are "ball" and "bawl".
Not exactly. In US English, words with "all" mostly have the AW sound (ball = bawl) rather than the short sound (as in shall). This is called a caret O sound, and especially in British English has more of an O sound (as in hallowed). Some LL words with short A are alloy, allied, shall, fallow, gallows, and ballad.
In US English, most -all words have a caret O or AW sound, to rhyme with haul and bawl. This is neither a short or long A sound. The short A is heard in gal and pal.