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                   English pronouncements
If it weren't hard enough learning the awkward and co ntrary language of
English for the inconsistent gammar, the pronunciation cou ld drive the
beginner to madness.
The combination "ough" can be pronounced i nfourteen different ways.
1. awe: thought, bought, fought, brought, ought, s ought, nought, wrought
2. uff: enough, rough, tough, slough, Clough, chough
3. ooh: through, slough
4. oh: though, although, dough, doughnut, broughm, Ough, furlough,
Greenough, thorough
5. off: cough, trough
6. ow: bough, plough, sough
7. ou: drought, doughty, Stoughton
8. uh: Scarborough, borough, thorough (alt), thoroughbred, Macdonough,
Poughkeepsie
9. up: hiccoughed
10. oth: trough (alt)
11. ock: lough, hough
12. oc[h] (aspirated): lough
13. ahf:G ough
14. og: Coughlin (also #5)
The following sentence contains them all:
R ough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman John Gough strode through
thestreets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough on Coughlin road
near thelough (dry due to drought), he coughed and hiccoughed, then
checked his horse's houghs and washed up in a trough.
2-4-1-6-13-8-3-14-12-7-5-9-11-10
Note:Loughborough is #2, followed by #8