A question of pronunciation

[chickenfeet]

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

[Poll #663848]

Comments

[nanila]

Slough

Depends on whether you're talking about the shedding of dead tissue or the place, innit.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

or bogs or metaphorical places of despond, innit?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Or a ditch which is not a bog.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

I make the same distinction. In my case its 'slew' for bog-like Thingie of Despond , 'sluff' for shedding skin. Mr Chickenfeet claims to pronounce both as 'sluff' but I suspect he doesn't (deliberately) exfoliate and so, never really needed to make the distinction.

[nanila]

Yes, "slew" for bog, "sluff" for skin" and "slow (to rhyme with thou)" for the city. Perhaps the results of the poll will sway Mr. Chickenfeet's opinion.

Or you could hypnotize him with your baleful glare.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

you could hypnotize him with your baleful glare.

I've been hypnotised, nay verily entranced, by lemur_catta for ten years

Aw.

[nanila]

Dear Sir, We regret to inform you that you have contracted a case of True Love. Medical science is not sufficiently advanced to effect a cure. We are afraid you're stuck with it. With Deepest Condolences, The Undersigned.

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

purrrrrrrrr

[lemur-catta.livejournal.com]

or perhaps I could lie for hours on the floor, inconveniently close to the drawing room door!...then again , the cats would get out...