"Drouth"

[Wilson Gray]

"Drouth" doesn't look odd, Charlie!. It looks like an old friend! It's
the same with "height." We spell it "height," but we pronounce it
"high-th." That's pure-dee East-Texan! "Drought" is like some weird
pronunciation-spelling.

-Wilson

On 11/5/07, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> Yes, Wilson, now that you mention it, maybe the spelling "drouth" does look odd! I also (usually) say "heighth," but I might (usually) spell it without the final "-h."
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> --Charlie
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> >Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:14:44 -0500
> >From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
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> >"Drouth"?! Wow, Charlie, I haven't seen that spelling since I moved away from Texas and stopped reading The Dallas Morning News and The Marshall News-Messenger (very roughly equivalent to reading The New York Times and The Boston Globe, nowadays). Well, not really. Even the Saint Louis newspapers used that spelling, back in the day.
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> >-Wilson
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