Minimal pairs: /ɒ/, /ɔː/ and /ɑː/ + British/American English

Ex. 1 Look at the following words containing the short vowel /ɒ/ and find their counterparts containing the long vowel /ɔː/.

bod, cod, cot, don/Don, god, Oz (Australia), sod it, stock, wad, what

Ex. 2 Look at the following words containing the short vowel /ɒ/ and find their counterparts containing the long vowel /ɑː/. Are these words minimal pairs in Standard American English?

Bobby, bot, cod, cot, comma, hot, logger, lock, mock, potty

Ex. 3 Look at the following words containing the long vowel /ɔː/ and find their counterparts containing the long vowel /ɑː/.

boar/bore, call, cord, core, dork, four, lord, more, ore, tore

KEY

1. bored, cord, court/caught, dawn/Dawn, gourd (also /gʊəd/), oars/ores, sordid, stalk/stork, ward, wart

2. Barbie, Bart, card, cart, calmer/karma, heart, lager, lark, mark, party

Standard American English does not have a short vowel /ɒ/ but uses long /ɑː/ instead. Since all of the words in the answer key contain postvocalic [r], which is pronounced in SAE but not British RP, the difference in American English would be that
of /ɑː/ and /ɑːr/, not /ɒ/ and /ɑː/.

3. bar, Carl, card, car, dark, far, lard, mar, are (full form), tar