Of course in my “9 Sounds of ‘A’ ” video , I covered one of the 9 sounds of the letter “A” being the “aw” sound.It’s actually a regional thing. You’ll hear it a lot in the mid-Atlantic region;especially in NYC. And, me being from NYC will attest the the “aw” #sound in certain words. This use of #phonetic respellings to indicate dialect features of NYC English — most commonly, “aw” for the tensed version of the low back /ɔ/ vowel: tawk for talk, wawk for walk, cawfee for coffee. Just to name or pronounce a few, in this video you’ll notice some vowel shifts as well as consonant shifts;e.g., the “u” taking a short “i” sound or what supposed to be a “t” sound taking on the “d” sound. Sit back, repeat and learn a little bit about the #nyc #accent Places where the “aw” sound appears include: Words containing “aw”, for example, awesome, awful, awkward, dawn, law, and saw Words containing “au”, for example, audition, August, Australia, author, autumn, cause, fraud, pause, sauce, and sausage Words containing “ough”, for example, bought, fought, sought, thought, ought, and cough Words containing “aught”, for example, daughter, caught, haughty, naughty, and taught Some words containing “al”, for example, talk, walk, ball, small, tall, wall, all, always, and already And a few common words containing “o”, for example, cloth, coffee, chocolate, dog, long, lost, boss, cross, loss, toss, off, and office.
Helping Verb Quiz For Beginners | Quiz Challenge |
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