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Hi,
Is there a spelling rule or reason as to why or when the letter a represents the ‘or’ sound?
I am guessing it has something to do with the following /l/ sound, but unsure.
Hi Natalie, the vowel-like sound “l” affects the pronunciation of quite a few vowels, probably in the olden days the vowels in these words were pronounced more like the “a” in “cat”, but over time they changed. You can find out a lot about the Great Vowel Shift which messed up our vowel spellings from the last couple of episodes of the History of English podcast.