ough the cough

[Beverly Flanigan]

Surely the problematic nature of this pronunciation has led to its
respelling as "slew"?  Which would suggest that English professors don't
represent the _real_ majority in the US!


At 01:42 PM 12/8/99 -0500, you wrote:
>In my survey of English professors for my book Pronouncing Shakespeare's
>Words, I found that slough (bog) rhymed with now for the majority in the US
>and UK, with a minority rhyming it with too.    In Canada it was reversed.
>
>Dale Coye
>The College of NJ