It's a beautiful fall day.

 How do you say that phrase?

 

  beautiful 

  It's a                         fall 

                                              day.

Take your time, and linger on each stressed vowel (beau, all, ay)

Let your intonation be higher on 'beautiful', then let it gradually go down a little more on 'fall', and then land on 'day'. Give some tone and time to the last word 'day', so we really feel the end of the phrase there.  

Listen to 4 different people say it:

Taught, caught, bought...

In words spelled with aught and ought, the letters u & gh are silent, and the vowel is pronounced with the open ɑ/ɔ sound.

(The sounds /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ are pronounced the same in the West Coast variety of American English).

taught = tot

bought = bot

caught = cot

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More examples

thought

/thɔt/

He thought about it all afternoon.

brought

/brɔt/

She brought watermelon to the picnic.

fought

/fɔt/

Princess Leia fought valiantly.