How do you pronounce Dawn and Don?
How do you pronounce Dawn?
- don. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the pronunciation of don as /dÉ’n/.
- dawn. The OED gives only one pronunciation for dawn: /dÉ”Ë n/.
- NOTE to teachers: the sound ä is already a stumbling block in learning to spell because it can be represented by either the letter a or the letter o.
What Dawn means?
The noun dawn refers to the first light of day, or the first time period, like the dawn of a new era, which occurs when a new president takes office. As a verb, dawn can mean “become light” or “become clear,” like when it dawns on you that you left an important paper at home today.