How is ō pronounced?

This is a neutral vowel
neutral vowel
In English, schwa is the most common vowel sound. It is a reduced vowel in many unstressed syllables especially if syllabic consonants are not used. Depending on dialect, it may be written using any of the following letters: ⟨a⟩, as in about [əˈbaʊ̯t]
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sound, pronounced like “uh,” as in banana, circus, and collect. This is often the hardest sound for a speller to figure out because it can be spelled with any vowel: a, e, i, o, u, or even y. Whenever there is a plain vowel with no marks on it, it is pronounced with a short sound.
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How is ō pronounced in English?

Open Your Mouth and Say Ah. Most frequently, the /o/ is pronounced as an /ah/, an /uh/ or an actual /o/.
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How do you pronounce O with line above?

For instance, a line over the letter "i" would be pronounced like "eye" like in the word "pie," and a line over the letter "o" would be pronounced "oh" like in the word "toe." A line over the vowel "a" would be pronounced "ay" like in "stray," and a line over the letter "e" would be pronounced like "ee" in "tree."
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What sound does ô make?

Pronouncing the closed “ô” sound in Portuguese

The IPA for this sound is /o/. It's a close, back vowel with rounded lips.
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What language uses O?

Its name in Finnish, Swedish, Icelandic, Estonian, Azeri, Turkish, Turkmen, Uyghur, Crimean Tatar, Hungarian, Votic and Volapük is Öö [øː], not "O with two dots" since /ø/ is not a variant of the vowel /o/ but a distinct phoneme.
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How to Pronounce ō in English? (CORRECTLY)



What is O called?

Noun. ô The name of the Latin-script letter O.
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What is a ø?

Noun. ō ? The name of the Latin-script letter O.
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What is the sound of Double ø?

Double O makes the OH diphthong like in 'brooch. It makes two sounds: The OH diphthong plus the AH vowel, like in 'cooperation' or 'zoology'. There are also four vowels that can be made with the double O: Food, foot, floor, flood.
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What is the straight line over the ø called?

A macron is a straight line ( ) that is placed over a vowel. This symbol gives a vowel a long sound. A diaeresis is two dots (..) that are placed on top of a vowel. A diaeresis is used when the vowel 'a' or 'u' are pronounced like they are “stretched out”.
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Is dog long o sound?

Those sounds are the long o sound (long o), as in the word most and the aw sound (aw sound), as in the word dog.
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What sound is u?

Traditionally, though, "a", "e", "i", "o", or "u" with a macron above it meant "the sound of the name of the letter" in dictionaries from the 18th and 19th centuries. So "ū" in those old dictionaries corresponds to /juː/ or /ju/ in modern IPA conventions, and \yü\ in Merriam-Webster. But not "ū" in your book.
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Is Zoo short OO or long OO?

The short and long phonics oo sounds make up words that are seen every day, such as “look,” “book,” “choo choo” and “zoo.” These are words that are used frequently by young children, and words that appear in many favorite books and videos that young children like to watch and can learn from.
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Is cookie long OO or short OO?

Common Words with Short-oo

Here are some of them: could, should, would, put, push, sugar, book, look, cookie, hook, took, good, wood, stood, foot. One fun way to practice the Short-oo sound is with the tongue twister “How Much Wood“.
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How is OO in poor pronounced?

Bookmark this question. Show activity on this post. These three words (as well as many other, these are just examples) are all spelled with double "o", so I guess all of them were pronounced with long /oː/ before the Great Vowel Shift.
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What does 2 dots above a letter mean?

umlaut Add to list Share. If you've ever studied German, you've seen an umlaut. It's a mark that looks like two dots over a letter, and it signifies a shift in pronunciation.
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What does 2 dots over an o mean?

A diaeresis is a mark placed over a vowel to indicate that the vowel is pronounced in a separate syllable—as in 'naïve' or 'Brontë'. Most of the English-speaking world finds the diaeresis inessential.
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Is o the same as o?

As languages was slowly simplified Sweden moved to use only ö, while Denmark-Norway - being one country - started using only ó. The slash over the o slowly became longer and we got the letter Ø. It should be known that this change was slow and in the earliest danish spelling books we still see the use of both ö and ø.
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How do you pronounce œ?

The Πis pronounced more or less according to the same rules as 'EU'. In general, if it's in an open syllable, it sounds like the 'U' in "full": listen. In a closed syllable, it is pronounced with the mouth just a little more open: listen.
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Is o the same as œ?

Ö or ö is one of the 4 extra letters used in German. It can be replaced by using the letters Oe or oe. In English language newspapers it is often written as O or o but this is not correct.
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What does u sound like?

Ú/ú is the 25th letter of the Icelandic alphabet, and represents a /u/ sound.
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What does u mean in Japanese?

For pronunciation and definitions of ū – see 有 (“to have; to possess; there is; to exist; etc.”). (This character, ū, is the Pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 有.)
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