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Someone asked me the question
on social media recently,
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the pronunciation of 'order' versus 'odor.'
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So there's just one letter
difference, but actually the
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difference is in the sound before that R.
So in the word 'odor,'' oh, it's the 'oh'
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diphthong. In the word 'order,' it's not the
OH diphthong, but it's the AW as in LAW vowel,
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followed by R. That R changes that sound. So
that sound should be: ⬆. More lip rounding
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and the tongue shifts back a little bit. That's
different than:⬆, in odor, where we don't have
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an R. The tongue doesn't pull back, shift back
at all. We have jaw drop, then lip rounding.
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Order
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Odor
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Or
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Oh
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Or
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Oh
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