It can have any of several sounds:
- short A (ant to rhyme with slant)
- umlaut A (as in Arthur)
- short O (ont to rhyme with font)
- AW (awnt to rhyme with haunt)
No. The A is pronounced either as a short A (ant) or AW sound (awnt).
Some words with "au" and a short "a" sound are: laugh, sausage, laundry, fraud.
Only one. But the AU vowel pair may be pronounced as a short A (ant) or as an AW sound (umlaut A).
It has a short I sound.
The A has a short A sound, and the I has a short I sound.
No. The A is pronounced either as a short A (ant) or AW sound (awnt).
Some words with "au" and a short "a" sound are: laugh, sausage, laundry, fraud.
Only one. But the AU vowel pair may be pronounced as a short A (ant) or as an AW sound (umlaut A).
When pronounced with a short A sound (IPA: æ) such as in certain dialects of British English and in American English, the word ant is a homophone of the word "aunt".My mom's sister is my aunt.
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.
It has a short I sound.
The A has a short A sound, and the I has a short I sound.
Yes, the i in pit has a short vowel sound.
Yes, the word "sock" has a short "o" sound, not a short "a" sound.
Yes. The A has the short A sound as in tap and back.
No. It has a short A sound and a short I sound (man-ij). The E has no sound.
Depends on how you pronounce it. There are two acceptable pronunciations - as you would pronounce "ant", (where the u would be silent), and as "haunt" without the h, (where the u would be pronounced as part of the diphthong "au").