It is a long O sound, as in the rhyming words ghost and post.
Other words use OA for the long O sound: boast, roast, and toast.
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.
No. It has a short E sound in most pronunciations. It usually rhymes with beg and leg.
Under most pronunciations, there is one long I and one short I (CLY-miht)
The most common pronunciation has a long I vowel sound in "bi" , a short I sound for the Y, and a schwa sound for the -le syllable.
It has neither. Most words with -all have the AW sound, as in bawl and crawl.
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.
No. It has a short E sound in most pronunciations. It usually rhymes with beg and leg.
Under most pronunciations, there is one long I and one short I (CLY-miht)
The most common pronunciation has a long I vowel sound in "bi" , a short I sound for the Y, and a schwa sound for the -le syllable.
It has neither. Most words with -all have the AW sound, as in bawl and crawl.
No. In most dialects, "boat" doesn't have an A sound at all, long, short, or middlin'.The OA vowel pair has a long O sound (oh) as in coat and boast.
The most common pronunciation of "oil", [ɔːjl̥], has one vowel which is considered "long" by phonetic / linguistic convention (actual length of the vowel). English "long" and "short" vowels are somewhat different; this vowel would probably be considered a "short O". Which makes things really confusing, because the vowel is now a "long short O" if you combine the systems.*Usually this OI/OY sound is not considered long or short, but you can see by pronouncing the OY that it is clearly a triphthong of the long vowels "O-I-E."It is seen in words such as boy, boil, toy, toil, noise, coin, and point.
Neither, but closer to short. In US English, most words with -all have the AW sound (ball = bawl) rather than the short A (as in gal and shall). This is called a caret O.So tall is not pronounced the same as in tallow or talent.
It is a short vowel sound, but either a short U (whut) or short O (wot).In most US dialects, it rhymes with but and cut.
Although clearly shown as a short E in most dictionaries, the word egg has two similar pronunciations.One rhymes with beg and has a short E sound, as in bet and peg.The other, apparently caused by the "eh" and "guh" coming together, clearly has a long A sound, as in the word vague. This also applies to the word leg.
No. For most words, GE following a vowel will create a long vowel sound. Examples: cage siege loge huge (Exceptions are the words from French such as renege and triage.)
You will have a long vowel sound if the vowel is followed by 2 consonants.