Short O

Short O is a vowel sound. It was taught in various segments and episodes of Between the Lions.

Word Families

Short O

• ock
• ocket
• og
• olf
• oll
• om
• op
• ot
• ox

A W or A U as a Short O

• aw

Appearances

Seasons 1 and 2

• Episode 02: The Lost Rock
• Episode 13: Pandora's Box
• Episode 16: The Popcorn Popper
• Episode 28: The Fox and the Crow
• Episode 30: Be Bop
• Episode 38: Bobby the Hopping Robot
• Episode 55: Stop That Chicken!

Pre-Season 1

• Episode 07: Touching the Moon
• Episode 15: There's a Fly in My Soup
• Episode 17: Something Fishy
• Episode 18: Hug, Hug, Hug!
• Episode 26: The Roar That Makes Them Run
• Episode 47: The Spider and the Lie

Post-Season 2

• Episode 75: The Golden Meaty Awards
• Episode 81: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash/Knuffle Bunny
• Episode 82: Sheep on a Ship/Mississippi Skip and his Pirate Ship
• Episode 84: I'll Fix Anthony / Jamaica Louise James
• Episode 101: Ruby Sings the Blues / The Camel Dances
• Episode 108: Elephants Can Paint, Too!/Jamaica Louise James
• Episode 110: I Don't Want a Birthday Party/Knuffle Bunny
• Episode 117: The Popcorn Popper/Oh, Yes, It Can! (repeat)
• Episode 130: Red Parka Mary/Not Afraid of Dogs

Segments About Short O

Short O

The Vowelles: sock

The Un-People vs. The Re-People: locked (Version 1)

Fred Says: clock

Sky: clock, lock, mock, mom

Dunderhead Lab with Dr. Nitwhite and Watson: Words with the Short O and the Letters O-W (Version 1)

What's Your Name?: Short O (Version 1)

Rocket-Doodle-Doo (Version 1)

Space: hoot, root, rot, rock, rocket (Version 1)

Space: hoot, root, rot, rock, rocket (Version 2)

Fred Says: rock

Fred Says: rocket

Sky: rocket, rock, sock, stock, stop

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: stop, hop (Version 1)

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: stop, hop (Version 2)

The Great Smartini: Popping Popcorn (Version 1)

Rocket-Doodle-Doo (Version 2)

The Vowelles: fox (Version 1)

The Vowelles: fox (Version 2, with adding one more light)

Fred Says: box as boxing (Version 1)

Fred Says: box as cardboard box (Version 1)

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Big Ox (Version 1)

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Big Ox (Version 2)

Fred Says: hot

What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Hot Chop Cheese Drop Soup in a Pot with No Top (Version 1)

On Broadway with Faith Prince and Walter Bobbie: hot

Replaced Letter Songs: A Mischievous Tot (Version 1)

What's Your Name?: Short O (Version 2)

Color Patterns: box, boo, boom (blue and purple version)

Color Patterns: box, boo, boom (orange and red version)

Space: boom, boot, hoot, hot, hop (Version 1)

Space: boom, boot, hoot, hot, hop (Version 2)

Gawain's Word: hop (Version 1)

Dunderhead Lab with Dr. Nitwhite and Watson: Words with the Short O and the Letters O-W (Version 2)

Sloppy Pop (Version 1)

Sometimes Y (Version 1)

The Vowelles: top (Version 1)

Gawain's Word: hop (Version 2)

Ms. Denyce Graves: opera (Version 1)

Ms. Denyce Graves: opera (Version 2)

The Great Smartini: Popping Popcorn (Version 2)

Tongue Twisters: Choppers Chop, Shoppers Shop

Abstract: shop, slop, stop, top, pop (Version 1)

Abstract: shop, slop, stop, top, pop (Version 2)

Fred Says: lollipop (Version 1)

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Big Ape and the Banana Drop (Version 1)

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Big Ape and the Banana Drop (Version 2)

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: helicopters

Sloppy Pop (Version 2)

Robots: pop, hop, hot, tot

Replaced Letter Songs: A Mischievous Tot (Version 2)

Color Patterns: tot, lot, lock

The Un-People vs. The Re-People: locked (Version 2)

Sometimes Y (Version 2)

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Tomato [knuck at my door or knock at my door] (Version 1)

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective with Lionel Lion: knuck at the door or knock at the door

Sometimes Y (Version 3)

Fred Says: glop

Fred Says: gloppy

Sloppy Pop (Version 3)

Gawain's Word: hop (Version 3)

What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Hot Chop Cheese Drop Soup in a Pot with No Top (Version 2)

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Tomato [knuck at my door or knock at my door] (Version 2)

Heath the Thesaurus sings Ten Small Words

Color Patterns: of, ox

The Vowelles: ox (Version 1)

The Vowelles: ox (Version 2)

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Big Ox (Version 3)

Ms. Denyce Graves: box

Fred Says: box as boxing (Version 2)

Fred Says: box as cardboard box (Version 2)

Robots: box, bop, top

What's Your Name?: Short O (Version 3)

The Vowelles: pop

Dunderhead Lab with Dr. Nitwhite and Watson: Words with the Short O and the Letters O-W (Version 3)

Color Patterns: pop, prop, drop

Fred Says: drop

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Big Ape and the Banana Drop (Version 3)

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Big Ape and the Banana Drop (Version 4)

Color Patterns: drop, prop, pop, pot, tot (Version 1)

Color Patterns: drop, prop, pop, pot, tot (Version 2)

Replaced Letter Songs: A Mischievous Tot (Version 3)

Fred Says: lollipop (Version 2)

Footprints or Shoeprints: pop

The Great Smartini: Popping Popcorn (Version 3)

Footprints or Shoeprints: pop, top, stop

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: stop, hop (Version 3)

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: stop, hop (Version 4)

Dr. Bertice Berry (with Announcer Bunny): bop

What's Your Name?: Short O (Version 4)

Gawain's Word: hop (Version 4)

The Vowelles: hot (Version 1)

The Vowelles: hot (Version 2)

The Vowelles: hot (Version 3)

What's Cooking? with Theo and Cleo: Hot Chop Cheese Drop Soup in a Pot with No Top (Version 3)

Sam Spud: Par-Boiled Potato Detective: A Real Tomato [knuck at my door or knock at my door] (Version 3)

The Un-People vs. The Re-People: locked (Version 3)

Rocket-Doodle-Doo (Version 3)

Footprints or Shoeprints: rock, mock, mop, stop, bop

Chalkboard: stop, top

Tiger Words: Lots of Tops [top, not pot]

The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Irish Step Dance with the Short O (Version 1)

Arty Smartypants: Hop, Hopping, Hopped, Hopper, Grasshopper (Version 1)

Fred Says: pop

Replaced Letter Songs: Ollie the Ox (Version 1)

Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Hoppa-Woppa-Coppa-Nope - not, note (Version 1)

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Pond (Version 1)

Get Your Mouth Moving with Fred and the Freds (Version 1)

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Pond (Version 2)

If You Can Read: op

Arty Smartypants: Hop, Hopping, Hopped, Hopper, Grasshopper (Version 2)

The Monkey Pop-Up Theater: Irish Step Dance with the Short O (Version 2)

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: hot, not (Version 1)

The Word Doctor with Dr. Ruth Wordheimer: hot, not (Version 2)

Get Your Mouth Moving with Fred and the Freds (Version 2)

Replaced Letter Songs: Ollie the Ox (Version 2)

Fred Says: robot

Sky: robot, rot, hot, not (Version 1)

Sky: robot, rot, hot, not (Version 2)

Vowel Boot Camp: Camp Hoppa-Woppa-Coppa-Nope - not, note (Version 2)

Gawain's Word: golf

Heath the Thesaurus and the monkeys sings Ten Little Words

Cook A Lot Like Me by Molly Stewpot: Cooking with the Short E and the Short O Sounds

Gawain's Word: box

Fun with Chicken Jane: Chicken Jane and the Ox in the Box

Reginald Livingston Seagull: Brush Dance

Plane: doll, dollar, dollhouse

The Vowelles: top (Version 2)

Real Kids: Kids Say Words That Begin with the Letter O

Helicopter: lock, lobster, lollipop

A W as a Short O

Magnets: straw, shawl, saw

Gawain's Word: straw

Fred Says: saw

The Adventures of Cliff Hanger: Cliff Hanger and the Awfully Big Seesaw

Blending Bowl: yawn

A U as a Short O

Monkey Cheerleaders: laundry