 | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Jonathan Reynolds
| | | | (...) So how would you pronounce 'Slough' (For our overseas friends, this is a big Industrial town near LLW) Jon (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Todd Lehman
| | | | | (...) You mean like how a snake sloughs its skin? I would say "sloff" with the "o" being a short o as in pot, zot, slot, etc. --Todd (24 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set) —Matthew Miller
| | | | | (...) Or like a swampy marshy bit of creek (and metaphorically, as in "Slough of Despond")? That's a slough too, pronounced "slau". Or maybe "sloo". I think you can also slough through mud, pronounced the same way. Really, if a word ends in "ough", (...) (24 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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