What does ‘bought’, ‘horse’, and ‘saw’ have in common?

Don’t allow English spelling to distract you! Often we have different letters that require the same sound. Look at these examples and the part underlined:

The sound is this:

It is written phonetically:

ɔː

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Practice

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