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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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what is the difference between long and short vowels
  

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Perhaps the easiest way to explain this is to give you some examples. com / you can hear the pronunciation of these words. In each pair, the first has a short vowel, and the second a long vowel.

— Blue Jay

  • Perhaps the easiest way to explain this is to give you some examples.
  • com / you can hear the pronunciation of these words.
  • In each pair, the first has a short vowel, and the second a long vowel.
  • A:- Cap/cape, mat/mate, can/cane, dam/dame, mad/made.
  • E:- Bet/beet, Fell/feel, ten/teen, pep/peep.
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Perhaps the easiest way to explain this is to give you some examples. If you look up these words in an online dictionary such as
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/
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Some teachers include OO.

Short OO: cook, good, foot
Long OO: mood, goof, hoot

CJ
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Blue JayO:- Not/note, hop/hope, doll/dole, con/cone
The words note, hope, dole and cone are pronunced with diphthong /??/.
It is the words like law, horse and walk that are pronunced with long /??/.
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AnonymousBlue JayO:- Not/note, hop/hope, doll/dole, con/coneThe words note, hope, dole and cone are pronunced with diphthong /??/.
It is the words like law, horse and walk that are pronunced with long /??/.
That's news to me. I cannot find any source that suggests that ?? is not considered a long O. They
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AnonymousThe words note, hope, dole and cone are pronunced with diphthong /??/.
That is of no consequence to the designations 'long' and 'short', at least not in the American system of teaching children to read. Technically, in AmE, long A, long I, and long O are all diphthongs, and long U starts with the glide /j/. These designations have nothing to do with
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If in AmE /??/ diphthong is designated as long O and /?/ sound as short O, what is the designation of sound /??/?
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It's usually referred to as the OR sound, although it is often grouped with the long O.
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What is the difference between the two sounds /??/ and /??/ in AmE?
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AnonymousWhat is the difference between the two sounds /??/ and /??/ in AmE?
/??/ occurs in American English only in northern dialects (those that have "Canadian raising"). It is the sound of "ou" when followed by an unvoiced consonant. stout /st??t/.

See http
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Comparison of /??/ and /??/ in BrE in the link below,

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