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⟨oa⟩
From Teflpedia
⟨oa⟩ is a vowel digraph that commonly occurs in English, consisting of O and A.
⟨oar⟩ and ⟨oal⟩ are treated separately.
Examples[edit | edit source]
| Phonemes | Example words | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ɢᴏᴀᴛ vowel phoneme | approach, boat, coach, cocoa, coat, coast, float, foam, goat, load, loan, oats, road, roast, throat, toad, toast, etc. | |
| ɢᴏᴀʟ vowel phoneme | coal, foal, goal, shoal, etc. | |
| ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛ vowel phoneme | abroad, broad | |
| ᴘᴀʟᴍ vowel as /wɑː/ | quinoa | Spanish-to-English loan. |
Like other spellings, this also occurs across syllable boundaries, in which case it’s not a digraph.
- /əʊ.ə/: boa, coalition, coalesce, Noah, protozoan, psychoanalysis
- /əʊ.ɑː/: coati, koala
- /əʊ.æ/: coagulate, proactive, radioactive
- /əʊ.eɪ/: oasis
