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(...) Those of us from surrounding towns call it Web-duh Lake :-) And for those wondering what it means, it means: "You fish on your side of the lake, I'll fish on mine, and nobody fishes in the middle" (yes I'm serious). (...) Mike Z. (26 years ago, 20-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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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", (...) (26 years ago, 19-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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(...) 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 (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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(...) So how would you pronounce 'Slough' (For our overseas friends, this is a big Industrial town near LLW) Jon (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma)
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"Matthew Miller" <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote in message news:slrn8s22bf.idt.....bu.edu... (...) Either way, us midwesterners get it right ;-) -- Tim Courtney - tim@zacktron.com (URL) - Centralized LDraw Resources (URL) - Zacktron Alliance ICQ: (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.loc.us.ma, lugnet.loc.us.oh)
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