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The majority of words don't actually follow that rule! 60% don't according to google. It would be more useful to just teach kids "these letters together make this sound" like we do with th and ch. just teach that au makes the aw sound, like in haul, audio, etc and problem solved!"If 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking" But then, wouldn't that make it "ay-nt"? Ah yet another exception in the English language ;)