Wild Colt Words
Usually when a vowel is followed by a consonant the
vowel is short. But remember in the English language that there are some words
that don’t follow the rules. In some words that that contain the letters i or o
followed by two consonants the vowels are long instead of short. There are
enough of these words that we put them in a category all by themselves and name
them the Wild Colt words. When you
see a word like this try the short vowel sound first. If it doesn’t sound right
try the long vowel sound.
Why do you think we call them Wild Colt Words? Look at
these words and see if you can figure this out.
Wild
Colt
Examples
bold
cold
told
mild
child
wild
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