Want some examples? Try this: how do you pronounce
OUGH ?
Depends. Put a B in front of it, and you get
BOUGH (ow!)
But put a C in front of it, and look what happens -
COUGH (off)
Try it with a D -
DOUGH (oh)
This is amazing - THROUGH (ooh!)
But this is ridiculous - TOUGH (buff)
Did I miss any possibilities?
All this leads us to an interesting question. There is a street in San Francisco named GOUGH. How do you suppose that is pronounced? Gow? Gawf? Go? Goo? Guff? Answer below*
ENOUGH, awready.
How about a couple of cartoons!
*Goff
See you on Monday morning, Pacific Daylight Time
Is THAT how you say it! Young man, you wouldn't give me any guff on that, right?
ReplyDeleteIn New Jersey/Long Island it's got two syllables, 'ought' sounding to me like "ooh-aht."
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