Yes, the A has a short A (ah) sound, as in gas, glass, and brass, although the S makes it sound different from other short A words.
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The word "grass" has a short vowel sound for the letter "a," pronounced /æ/.
Grass has a long "a" sound in the word.
No, the word "grass" does not have a short "a" vowel sound (/æ/). It has the long "a" vowel sound (/eɪ/).
Well, honey, grass has a short vowel sound. The 'a' in grass makes the /æ/ sound, which is short and snappy. So next time you're out in the yard, remember that grass is short and sweet in more ways than one.
The word grass usually has a short A sound in US English, rhyming with crass, gas, mass, and pass.But some dictionaries show it as an umlaut A (close to a short O) and its British pronunciation is (grahs) which is practically a rhyme for cross.