Alphabetic Spellers: Sort 49 (Short a and ar) cat star brag car art arm drag farm card crab part yard sheep are oddball snap far shark crash war oddball bark dark trap jar park
All these words have an “a” All these words have an “a”. When “a” comes before r, they do not have a short sound. These vowels have a unique sound and are known as r-influenced (or r-controlled). War is an oddball because it is spelled with an –ar, but does not make the sound. Are can be an oddball since it has the same sound as -ar but it ends with the vowel “e”.
Alphabetic Spellers: Sort 49 (Short a and ar) cat star brag car art arm drag farm card crab part yard sheep are oddball snap far shark crash war oddball bark dark trap jar park