OH Sound
ɔː (four, store)

English Pronunciation, Lesson 10

The OH sound (IPA symbol: ɔː) can be found in English words such as: 
store, four, sort, war, floor, or, court, north, short, sport, support.

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Watch the following video to learn how to pronounce this sound correctly:



Have you watched it? Good! Let's practice...

Say these words out loud (OH sound is bold):

1) or

2) door

3) war

4) four

5) shore

6) snore

7) floor

8) for

9) course

10) court

11) north

12) short

13) sport

14) support

15) sort

16) boring

17) warning

18) morning


Now say these sentences out loud (OH sound is bold):

1) Do you want to fix the door or the floor?

2) Can I have more of that warm soup?

3) They received four warnings.

4) It was boring to swim to the shore.

5) He sort of snores.

7) I am starting a short course on foreign languages.

8) He doesn't like any sort of horse sport.

9) I was born in a court.

10) We did not receive a formal order.

Have you finished them all? Cool! 

Well done! You have completed the OH sound lesson.

Let's move on...

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