Explanation Please

[xcutter]

Clue in local paper recently. Paddle noisily in wonder (3) The answer given next day was awe. I can see awe = wonder but what's the connection with paddling noisily?

[cashier]

Sounds like oar

[Toorak]

Supposed to sound like oar?

[Mamyalynne]

Supposedly sounds like 'oar' /paddle, does depend on your accent though.

[dannyk13]

Awe sounds like oar(paddle)

[donny48]

I think that the setter is stretching things regardless of accent.

[murraymints]

oi Danny ..answer me ! please..me worried !

[Mamyalynne]

Look at last thread MM I linked to cb

[dannyk13]

Check link Minty.
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1572890-1.html

[xcutter]

Thanks for your answers but I'm afraid you've lost me. Awe sounds like oar? Not in my part of the world! Cheers anyway.

[murraymints]

too complimacated mamy !

[Prudie]

Before I read the answers it was clearly because oar sounds like aweto me. Irrelevant of accent I can't think how the two words can be anything other than sounding exactly the same.

[Mamyalynne]

Not us who have lost you, it's the setter - 'Noisily' is a 'sounds like' indicator.

[xcutter]

Prudie, oar is owe with an "r" on the end. Awe rhymes with saw. That's how I pronounce them!

[dannyk13]

It's all down to local pronunciation, to me (a Tyke)they sound the same.

[bhg481]

The trouble is, xcutter, some people pronounce "saw" as if it has an "r" in it.

[Mamyalynne]

Setters take a risk with sounds like clues, you have at times to stretch your imagination and look where the clue is taking you.

[Prudie]

Oh! well never in my life have I ever heard anyone pronounce what you row a boat with as an 'ower'. Must get out more :-)

[xcutter]

Right, Prudie, I'll try a different way. Take oh, as in "oh no" and put an "r" on the end. Does that help? :-)

[Spoffy]

Leaving aside the variations in pronunciation which beset homophone clues, a bigger problem for me here is 'noisily'. I see no way that 'in a clamorous fashion' can indicate 'when spoken/heard'. 'Dread noise of paddle' would be better, but still borderline in my view.

[Prudie]

Sort of xcutter, I've just only ever heard it as an exact rhyme with soar, more, claw and ahem awe :-)