Saturday 5 January 2019

Minimal pairs: /ɔː/, /aɪ/ and /ɔɪ/

Ex. 1 Look at the following words containing the vowel /ɔː/ and find their counterparts containing the diphthong /ɔɪ/. What are the homophones of boar, oar and soar?

all, ball, boar, call, core, corn, fall, oar, roar, soar, tall, tore

Ex. 2 Look at the following words containing the vowel /aɪ/ and find their counterparts containing the diphthong /ɔɪ/.

aisle, bile, buy, eye, Kyle, file, lighter, rye, sigh, tied, try, vied
 
KEY
1. /ɔɪ/: oil, boil, boy/buoy, coil, coy, coin, foil, oy, Roy, soy, toil, toy; homophones: bore, ore, sore
2. oil, boil, boy/buoy, oy, coil, foil, loiter, roy, soy, toyed, Troy, void

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