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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2006-01-31 01:30 pm
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A question of pronunciation

Inspired by [livejournal.com profile] forthright I thought I'd ask some questions about English pronunciation. How do you pronounce the following:

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[personal profile] gillo 2006-01-31 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
As my first thought was the town Betjeman summoned bombs onto, I rhymed "Slough" with "thou". But if you mean "to shed", it would be "sluff".