Decoding exercises: "aw"

The sequence "aw" very reliably represents IPA phoneme /ɔː/.

/ɔː/

 * awe, awesome, awful, awkward, bawdy, brawl, claw, coleslaw, crawfish (also crayfish), crawl, dawn, draw, drawer /drɔːr/, flaw, hawk, jaw, law, lawn, macaw, paw, pawn, prawn, raw, saw, scrawny, spawn, straw, thaw, withdraw, yawn

Different syllables

 * /əw/: away - aware - award - awry - Delaware - Hawaii
 * /ɑːw/: Malawi

Variant pronunciations

 * lawyer /ˈlɔjər, ˈlɔɪər/

Homophones

 * claws - clause; paws - pause;