JAMB - English Language (2002 - No. 38)
Choose the option that has a different vowel sound from the others?
rough
dog
cough
rot
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as usual, we will consider a list of possible pronunciations of all the options above and the one with different sound from the rest will be picked.
rough----[rʌf]
dog----/dɒɡ/
cough---/kɒf/
rot----/rɒt/. From the outlined pronunciations, we can see that only ''rough'' has a different sound ''ʌ'' from the other options with ''ɒ''.