Klarinet Archive - Posting 001124.txt from 2000/02

From: Mark Thiel <thielm@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Language (was ligatures)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:23:30 -0500

Let's not underrate the diversity and inventiveness of the English
language!
There's also "lough" - the Irish spelling of "loch" (pronounced
similarly, I think),
and I think there's even an eighth pronunciation of ough which
fortunately I've
forgotten.

Silly examples aside, if the best and brightest of American (and I
assume Brit, Aussie,
Kiwi, etc.) youth weren't wasting their time competing in spelling bees,
they might actually
have time to learn a SECOND language.

Mark Thiel

>My German teacher told me of a German friend of hers who was afraid to
use
>the word "doughnut" in speaking because she could never remember which
>pronunciation for "ough" was used here. And then contemplate the
oddities
>of spelling and pronunciation in the following set of words.
>
>"Though the tough cough and hiccough plough him through"

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