"Boat" is a word with a vowel digraph, with the "oa" representing a single vowel sound.
The normal sound of the OA pair is a long O as in loan and coal. It has a caret O (or) sound in R words such as board and soar (long O +R). In the word boa, it has the two separate sounds, a long O and a schwa (boh-uh).
Yes, the word "toast" does have a long o sound. In linguistics, a long vowel sound is one that is pronounced for a longer duration than a short vowel sound. In the case of "toast," the letter o is pronounced as a long vowel sound, similar to the sound in the word "boat" or "coat."
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.
The OA pair in goat is pronounced as a long O sound, as in boat and float.
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The letter o has the same sound as the oa in goat
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"Boat" is a word with a vowel digraph, with the "oa" representing a single vowel sound.
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No. The OA pair has the long O (oh) sound, as in boat and coat.
Well, honey, the animal you're looking for is a goat. It's got four letters and 'OA' smack dab in the middle. Now, don't go goat-getting yourself into trouble trying to find other animals fitting that description!