coordination gone awry

[Beverly Flanigan]

At 02:01 PM 6/2/2006, you wrote:
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>"slough" is pronounced "slew", by the way.
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>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)
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Yes, that's my pronunciation (and spelling), but I frequently hear "slauw"
[slau]--probably from people who've never had to wade through one.  I've
even heard this with ref. to Bunyan's "Slough of Despond."

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