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<h1>Minimal Pairs</h1>
<div class="subtitle">British English vowel contrast: <b>/ɔː/</b> and <b>/ɜː/</b></div>

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<tr><td class="left">four</td><td class="right">fur</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">court</td><td class="right">curt</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">all</td><td class="right">url</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">pore</td><td class="right">purr</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">form</td><td class="right">firm</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">chord</td><td class="right">curd</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">sport</td><td class="right">spurt</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">whore</td><td class="right">her</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">torn</td><td class="right">turn</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">or</td><td class="right">err</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">walk</td><td class="right">work</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">thawed</td><td class="right">third</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">horse</td><td class="right">hearse</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">short</td><td class="right">shirt</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">warm</td><td class="right">worm</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">hoard</td><td class="right">heard</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">bored</td><td class="right">bird</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">Paul</td><td class="right">pearl</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">store</td><td class="right">stir</td></tr>
<tr><td class="left">ward</td><td class="right">word</td></tr>
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