Gregg Reynolds recently said:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> > Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 11:50 AM
> >
> > "Alain LaBonté " wrote:
> >
> > > unlike English "ough" which is pronounced I don't know in
> > how many ways
> > > (ut, up, o, etc., 11 ways, was I told)
> >
> > bough (rhymes with now)
> > dough (rhymes with go)
> > enough (rhymes with cuff)
> > cough (rhymes with off)
> > bought (rhymes with taut)
> > through (rhymes with sue)
> > hough (rhymes with lock, probably unique)
> > hiccough (rhymes with up, probably unique, also spelled
> > "hiccup")
> > thorough (schwa vowel or short o, depending on dialect)
> >
>
> But in our accounting of this slough of oughy despair let us not slough over
> "slough", the doughtiest of oughs!
>
> There, that makes 11, with one dual. (key: 1st slough = slew/slu, or slao
> rimes with cow; 2nd slough = sluff; doughty = doubt ;)
This evening I travelled through Loughborough. The pronounciation is obvious :-)
Slough on the other hand rhymes with cow.
Tim
P.S. Luffborerr in case you were wondering.
P.P.S. It's not a million miles from Gotham which is pronounced one way by
those who live there and another by everyone else in the area. Neither of
which are the same as the comic strip city. (Goat-am, Go-tham, Goth-am IIRC.)
-- Tim Partridge. Any opinions expressed are mine only and not those of my employer
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