Legomorphic NotationSound and Word Atlas

The route Reading the marks Definitions Word cards Word lists Presentations About

Vowel teams · Step 23 of 32

The aw sound

(Under construction: steps 16 to 32 are a first draft. Next: a second look at their order and their words.)

New marks

None: the step uses marks already met.

Kernel words

was, beside want and wash

Carney (1994)

aw, au and a before l, pp. 181–182; all, ball and call, p. 184; a after w, p. 150

Step 22A team's second sound Step 24The ouch and oil sounds

Page references are to Edward Carney, A Survey of English Spelling (Routledge, 1994). Updated 8 November 2026.

© 2026 Dante Wetherow, B.Ed., M.Ed. Shared under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Credits and contact