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[A. Maberry]

You're right of course. So I distinguish 8 "ough"s not 7. I could see
cough rhyming with slough but that would still leave 8 pronunciations.

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu

On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Kim & Rima McKinzey wrote:

> >I...and the ough
> >in "thought" = the the ough in "coughed".
>
> Surely you don't say either thawft to rhyme with kawft or, conversely, kawt
> to rhyme with thawt...
>
> Rima
>