Pronouncing au.

I would say uh- roar-a and oss-tralia. How to pronounce “au” would depend on the letters following it.

I pronounce Aura like this Or’ uh Rhymes with Bora as in Bora Bora.

To me, as a native, somewhat Northern, English speaker, the first part of "aura" sounds exactly the same as the word "or". /ˈɔːrə/ Google "how to pronounce aura" to listen. I would pronounce Aurora as "ah, roar, ah" but squished together. I pronounce Australia completely differently to those sounds. The first part is the same sound as "loss" or "boss". oss. tray. lee. ah. > Are there any instances of an au in English pronounced like ow? I'm curious! It depends if you mean "ow" like "owl", or "ow" like "toe", or "ow" like "cow". Niki Lauda, the F1 racing driver, maybe? That sounds like "louder". Or "faux" sounds like oh, rhymes with toe. Or "gauss", when we degauss our ancient CRT screens. That's "ow" rhymes with cow. --- I'm curious about why you "see the word aura a lot" ;-)

Some people say Low-ra and others say Law-ra when pronounsing Laura. It's a regional thing, and a family thing depending on your family's roots.

you actually made me google this... luau (though that's cheating a bit since it's a Hawaiian word) glaucoma that's all i have 😂

Put simply, no, you don’t really get that sound from “au” in English. Might be a couple examples here and there but they’re few and far between.

Im from england. I would pronounce the "au" in aura as "or". So "or-ruh" 

Aural comes to mind - I know most pronounce it the same as oral but I always said it more like aʊrəl, and many I know in the science/medical field have done the same (but probably under half) - I imagine it only really matters if you envisage using both and need to differentiate.

Aubergine starts with a syllable identical to the word "owe" (for me). Not sure of that is what you meant by "ow".

I think you're more likely to hear it as aww than as oww. What's your native language? I think you're trying to say your native language pronounces it as oww, but your post isn't super clear.

You can't pronounce it like ow-uh because it would remove the r sound. If you pronounced it like ow-uh, I would think you are saying OW(as in something hurt you).

Usually, it's borrowed words/names like "sauna", "Saudi", "Gauss", or "luau" in which people pronounce "au" like the "ow" in "tower". In the case of "sauna", though, many people still pronounce it with the "au" of "taut".

As a native, I pronounce aura like ore-uh, but I know people who say it more like our-ah. Aurora is more like Uh-roar-ah (both as a name and when referring to the weather event)

To me as a Brit it would be more a soft awe rather than soft ow but I do understand the soft w. Similar too oor.

Au is traditionally an 'or' sound in English. I believe the ow sound is maybe Germanic? Certainly the only use of it I can tjink of is in Lord of the Rings where Sauron is said with an ow sound. Not like sore-on. I can't write Sow-ron because the act of plsnting is to sow and that rhymes with toe but a female pig is a sow and that rhymes with cow - see also row=argument and row=rowing a boat

What no one has mentioned yet is that there are multiple pronunciations for that vowel depending on your dialect of English. It’s hard to use other words/descriptions to convey the differences in these sounds because all of the example words will also be affected and will sound different depending on the dialect of the speaker. You should use IPA symbols to understand the difference. The most traditional pronunciation is /ɔ/, which is called the open O. American English has a widespread vowel merger called the cot-caught merger. People with this merger (which is a *lot* of Americans), don’t have the /ɔ/ open O sound. So those speakers will pronounce it as either /o/ or /ɑ/. So you can use *any* of those 3 sounds and you’ll be using “native pronunciation.” And just fyi, “ow” is a diphthong (meaning it’s 2 vowels combined), and aw/au aren’t pronounced that way.

I pronounce aura as or-ah and Australia as Aw-strai-lee-ah

I cannot provide any sources for this, but there are parts on the SE United States where words like "audition" are often pronounced "ow-DISH-on" but that is not a universal and is very uncommon these days. Extreme southern accents like that are almost extinct. But none of those people would say "ow-STRAY-lee-ah" or "OW-ra" for Australia or aura. Strangely, I'd say that this pronunciation of "au" as "ow" has been kept alive best in French phrases with "au" borrowed directly into English like "au contraire" or "au gratin." It isn't hard to find a Southerner born around Louisiana who speaks French like Peggy Hill speaks Spanish.

The "au" in laugh is pronounced "af." Phonetics doesn't work with English. Though I often wonder if, back in the distant past, the "u" following another vowel was supposed to be pronounced as an "f," at least thats my excuse for Brits mispronouncing "lieutenant." As opposed to their deliberate mispronouncing of "aluminum," so they sound more posh