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Difference between revisions of “Decoding and spelling exercises: "o" adjacent to "m", "n", "v" or "w"”
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*O adjacent to '''"m"''': mobile, moment, most, motivate, prom'''o'''te, prom'''o'''tion | *O adjacent to '''"m"''': emotion, mobile, moment, most, motivate, prom'''o'''te, prom'''o'''tion, smoke | ||
*O adjacent to '''"n"''': alone, bone, don't, no, noble, notable, notion, phone, stone, won't, zone | *O adjacent to '''"n"''': alone, bone, don't, no, noble, notable, notion, phone, stone, won't, zone | ||
*O adjacent to '''"v"''': dove ''(past tense of dive),'' vote | *O adjacent to '''"v"''': dove ''(past tense of dive),'' vote |
Revision as of 21:03, 11 January 2018
IPA phoneme /əʊ/ Open-mid back unrounded vowel Open back rounded vowel The letter O has three main pronunciations when it is adjacent to M, N, V or W, as in cover, as in poverty and as in over.
As /ɒ/
{{{1}}} See main article IPA phoneme /ɒ/.
- O adjacent to "m": bomb, compact (adj., n.), economy, model, modern, promise, prompt
- O adjacent to "m" and "n": economic
- O adjacent to "m" and "v": vomit
- O adjacent to "m" and "w": wombat
- O adjacent to "n": beyond, bond, contact, contract (n.), on, response, technology, upon
- O adjacent to "n" and "v": novel
- O adjacent to "n" and "w": wonton
- O adjacent to "v": involve, poverty, volcano, volume, volunteer
- along, gone, long
As /ʌ/
See main article IPA phoneme /ʌ/.
- O adjacent to "m": accomplishBrE - Colombia - come - comfort - comfortable /ˈkʌmftəbəl, ˈkʌmfərtəbəl/ - company - compass - mother - some - stomach
- O adjacent to "m" and "n": among - Monday - money - mongrel - monk - monkey - month
- O adjacent to "n": another - confrontation - done - front - honey - London - none - nothing - one /wʌn/ - once /wʌns/ - onion /ˈʌnjən/ - son - sponge - ton - tongue - tonne
- O adjacent to "n" and "w": won - wonder - wonderful
- O adjacent to "v": above - Coventry /ˈkʌvəntriː, ˈkɒvəntriː/ - cover - covet - discover - dove (bird) - glove - government - love - lover - oven - shovel - slovenly
As /əʊ/
See main article IPA phoneme /əʊ/.
- O adjacent to "m": emotion, mobile, moment, most, motivate, promote, promotion, smoke
- O adjacent to "n": alone, bone, don't, no, noble, notable, notion, phone, stone, won't, zone
- O adjacent to "v": dove (past tense of dive), vote
- O adjacent to "w": awoke, wove, woven
As /uː/
- tomb, move, movie, two, womb
As /ʊ/
- wolf, woman
Spelling anomaly
- As /ɪ/: women
"Cor"
In this section we will see words spelled with "Cor", where C is "m", "n", "v" or "w".
As /ɔː/
- O adjacent to "m": more, morning
- O adjacent to "n": ignore, normal, north
- O adjacent to "v": divorce
- O adjacent to "w": swore, sworn, wore, worn
As /ɒ,BrE ɑːAmE/
- tomorrow
As /ɒ,BrE ɔːAmE/
- minority, moral
As /ɜː/
- word, work, worm, worse, worship, worst, worth
As /ʌ,BrE ɜːAmE/
- worry
Variant pronunciations
- accomplish: /əˈkʌmplɪʃBrE, əˈkɒmplɪʃAmE/
- Coventry /ˈkʌvəntriː, ˈkɒvəntriː/
- from /frəm, frɒm, frʌmAmE/
- hover: /ˈhɒvər,BrE ˈhʌvərAmE/
- monetary: /ˈmɒnɪteriː,AmE ˈmʌnɪtriːBrE/
References