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[Aaron E. Drews]

My tuppence:

>>A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode the streets of
>>Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed, houghed, and
>>hiccoughed.

I can only find six pronuncations for my accent of American, and only six
for standard Scottish English, 7 for standard England English.  10???
I've gotta be missing something here.

rough-hiccoughed-(slough)
dough
through
thoughtful-coughed-houghed [for me - and Scots, although with a different
                                             realisation]
coughed [for England]
ploughman- (slough)
Scarborough (despite my previous posting, the same for most varieites of
British Englishes)

--Aaron


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Aaron E. Drews                               The University of Edinburgh
aaron at ling.ed.ac.uk                  Departments of English Language and
http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~aaron       Theoretical & Applied  Linguistics

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