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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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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 01:20:52 GMT
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Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> 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.
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", you can pretty much give up all hope of guessing the
pronunciation: bough, cough, dough, rough, through....
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
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