#SHORT I WORD BUILD PLUS#
The AW as in LAW plus R: Floor, oh-oh, floor, door, anything with ‘door’ like ‘doorway’, ‘doormat’, ‘indoor’, ‘outdoor’. The UH as in BUTTER vowel: Flood, blood, and other words or compound words with ‘blood’, like ‘bloody’ or ‘blood work’. For these four, let’s go over more words for each category. There are also four vowels that can be made with the double O: Food, foot, floor, flood. It makes two sounds: The OH diphthong plus the AH vowel, like in ‘cooperation’ or ‘zoology’. Let’s review.ĭouble O makes the OH diphthong like in ‘brooch. A brooch is a piece of jewelry that you can pin to your shirt or jacket. The most common pronunciation for this in the US is with the OH as in NO diphthong. Same root, different pronunciation of OO.Īlso the O-O in the word ‘brooch’. Zoology, the study of animals, zoo, a place where animals are kept. This one is funny because it’s related to the word ‘zoo’, where the double O makes one sound, the OO vowel. This pronunciation is also in the word ‘zoology’, where there is a syllable split between the two O’s. Occasionally you’ll see this written with a dash between these two syllables, but often not. Co-op. The first is the OH diphthong: co- oh- oh- and the second is the AH as in FATHER vowel. What’s interesting is that there, the two letters O are actually in different syllables, making two different sounds. First, the word ‘cooperation’, or, for short, you might see it as ‘coop’. There are even two more pronunciations, though they’re not as frequent. It’s one of the things that makes communicating in English, speaking English, that much harder. Really, the pronunciation of a word has to be memorized when you learn the definition of a new word. There’s no way to know by looking at these words.
#SHORT I WORD BUILD HOW TO#
Can you tell by looking which vowel sound it is? What’s the clue? How to do you know the pronunciation of the letters O-O by looking at a word? Do you know the answer? In all of these words, O-O is pronounced differently. Now, we’ve talked about ‘food’, ‘foot’, ‘floor’, and ‘flood’. What about the words ‘flood’ and ‘blood’? What vowel sound do you hear there? Flood, blood, bloody. But in these words, the mouth closes more and the tongue pulls back a little bit more: door, o-o, do-o- door, aw, aw, law. So the sound is more closed. AW as in LAW is pronounced like this, AW, AW. Some common words here would be ‘door’, ‘poor’, ‘floor’. For this sound, I’ve only found words where OO is followed by R, and that does change the AW sound, it makes it more round. See an in-depth video on that sound by clicking here, or, you know what’s even better? I’ll link to the playlist with ALL the sounds of American English at the end of this video.Īnother pronunciation in some common words with O-O is the AW as in LAW sound. Notice the lips flare a bit for this sound. This is in my Sounds of American English series, and I’ll link to that video here and in the description below.Īnother common pronunciation is the UH sound like in ‘book’, ‘cook’, ‘foot’, ‘hoodie’. I have a video that goes over the pronunciation of this sound, including some close ups of the mouth. The lips are a bit relaxed, and then the come into a tighter circle. OO. This happens in words like ‘zoo’, ‘food’, ‘moon’, ‘loop’. The most common pronunciation for the letter OO is the sound.
Any letter, or set of letters like OO, might have more than one pronunciation. But in English, the vowel sound AH appears with many different spellings in different words:įor example. That’s why spelling can be so tricky, and why pronunciation can be so hard.Ī phonetic language is one where speech sounds, like AH for example, are written just one way. Do you know them all? Let’s learn them and practice them.Īs we study the pronunciation of any given letter or set of letters, we have to remember the sad fact that English is not phonetic. One of you reached out to me and said: Rachel, will you make a video that goes over the pronunciation of O-O? There are many different pronunciations. YouTube blocked? Click here to see the video. If you take the challenge and enjoy this Advanced lesson please forward it to the people in your life who might also be up for it
I break down each of these sounds, teach you the precise pronunciation of each and make sure that you’re speaking each of them in the way that a native speaker would. Up for a challenge today? This Advanced English Lesson teaches, in detail, the 6 sounds created by the letters “ oo ”.
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