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Both pole and vowel have long o sounds, but they sound differently. The o in pole is pronounced the same way in open, ohm, only, and hotel. The o sound in vowel is an ow sound as in cow, row, how, crowd and brow.
The vowel O in owl is controlled by the following W, making the vowel neither short or long. It makes the sound OW, as in COW.
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Not usually. It is an O sound called the circumflex O or caret O (ô).This appears as a long O in OR words such as more, forward, and orangutan.But it has a distinctly different AW sound in words such as frog and log. This second pronunciation is the AWR in orange as pronounced in the US.But some speakers do pronounce it with a short O sound.
Most AI words sound like long A as in AY - maid, waif, maim, nail, main, fair, baitOnly some sound like E or I : said, aisle