oa in American English
Have you seen the multigraph 'oa' before? Have you read anything on it before? Well, in this lesson, I'm gonna tell you all there is about it.
'oa' as a digraph has some sounds that we are going to talk about here.
Digraphs are a set of two letters that stand together and produce a new sound.
Digraph | oa |
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Name | oa (pronounced /ˈəʊ ˈeɪ /) |
Sound(s) | /oʊ/, /ɒː/ |
The Digraph 'oa'
Sound 1: /oʊ/
'oa' always stands in the middle of words and sounds /oʊ/:
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appr
Sound 2: /ɒː/
'oa' standing in the middle of words can sound /ɒː/:
abr
br
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