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Do aural and oral sound the same
Depends on who's saying them.
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aural sex
if you keep your ears open...
formerly known as etaoin...
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"Oh, my virgin ears!" she crossthreaded fridgidly.
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Do aural and oral sound the same to you? Oh, no, not at all. Er, well, not if I need to be careful in pronunciation, that is.  Confess that if I knew for sure the hearer would know which one I meant, they'd prolly sound a lot alike. But the first syllable in aural is the sound-equivalent of awe, whereas the first syllable in oral = ore.
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There! Proof positive. They *do speak English in Kentucky!
:-)
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They don't sound the same to me, either - only, for me, "oral" rhymes with "coral" rather than with "choral"
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"coral" rather than with "choral"
hey! let go of my leg!
now, if you'd said "corral" rather than "chorale"...
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They *do speak English in Kentucky! HEY! Now just a dadburned, cotton-pickin' minnit, here--y'all cut that out now, y'hear? 
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"oral" = "aural" ?
I pronounce them indistinguishably. On the other hand my parents, veterans of young adulthood in New York City during the Depression when civil service jobs were a thing to be prized, used to tell about how the Board of Education used the candidates' pronounciation of those two words as a disqualifying criterion. (So many applicants, so few openings...) I think they had to be different, but I couldn't say which was what.
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