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Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set)
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lugnet.loc.us.ma
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Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:25:56 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.us.ma, Jonathan Reynolds writes:
> So how would you pronounce 'Slough' (For our overseas friends, this is a
> big Industrial town near LLW)
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
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 | | Re: Gloucester MA (was: Re: Harry Potter (Film) Set)
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| (...) 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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