Eight Pronunciations of “-ough”

rogersgeorge on July 16th, 2019

Not exactly a lesson, just fun. The last one, by the way is, pronounced “hock.”

The rough-coated, dough-faced ploughman strode coughing and hiccoughing through the streets of Scarborough leading a horse whose leg had been houghed.

Campbellā€™s Higher English

Maybe someone can draw me a cartoon of that…

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