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Short O and U

Most common mistakes:

 
1
  body & buddy
 
2
  boss & bus
 
3
  bought & but
 
4
  caught & cut
 
5
  cop & cup
 
6
  dock & duck
 
7
  hot & hut
 
8
  lock & luck
 
9
  aunch & lunch
 
10
  shot & shut

Other mistakes:

 

botcher & butcher, box & bucks, calm & come, chalk & chuck, cob & cub, cod & cud, cough & cuff, dawn & done, dog & dug, doll & dull, fawn & fun, golf & gulf, got & gut, hog & hug, not & nut, pawn & pun, pot & putt, pox & pucks, rob & rub, robber & rubber, socks & sucks, stock & stuck, talks & tux

 

Practise these

 

Chuck the chalk!
He's got a big gut.
I cut the fish I caught.
The box cost two bucks.
His boss was hit by a bus.
The fawn had a lot of fun.
The duck flew to the dock.
The pizza's hot at Pizza Hut.
The robber robbed the rubber.
The bear cub ate the corn cob.
Malibu Barbie is not a dull doll.
The dog dug a hole for his bone.
The work must be done by dawn.
Cough on your cuff, not in the air.
Thanks, but I already bought one.
With the last putt, he won the pot.
The calm will come after the storm.
You big hog, let me give you a hug.
I said the pawn shop, not the pun shop.
Astronauts have lunch before the launch.
He shot the policeman, then shut the door.
He saw his buddy's body in the ambulance.
Just my luck to lock my keys inside the car!
The cop had a cup of coffee with his doughnut.
We played golf at Cancun on the Gulf of Mexico.


 

 

 
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