Difference between revisions of "-ough-"
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Revision as of 11:59, 3 August 2007
This combination of letters can be pronounced in eight different ways in English:
- cough
- enough
- bough
- through
- thought
- though
- thorough
- hiccough (though this last one is a false etymology, and is better spelled hiccup: see hiccough)
