Comments on Have Fun With English: The importance of correct pronunciation - Podcast

Most pronunciation guides classify "through" and "...

2010-01-04T07:06:25.462+01:00

Most pronunciation guides classify "through" and "slough" as having the same pronunciation. The ninth pronunciation should be "lough" (as in "loch").

It is fun, as long as you're not learning English....

2009-09-26T10:26:06.059+02:00

It is fun, as long as you're not learning English. :-p

I turned it into a guess game on a voice forum and...

2009-09-26T00:30:04.468+02:00

I turned it into a guess game on a voice forum and that was fun.

A ginormous (like this word) thank you for it!

Arghhh! A nightmare while I’m awake? I really c...

2009-08-21T16:26:41.874+02:00

Arghhh! A nightmare while I’m awake?

I really can’t appreciate this wee bit of fun with English, I’m not a connoisseur. LOL

"I cannot tell the difference between plough and s...

2009-07-01T11:32:02.408+02:00

"I cannot tell the difference between plough and slough."

Hi. "Plough" is more often spelled "plow" in US English and rhymes with "how, now, and cow" worldwide. "Slough" is not commonly used in the US, is a homonym of “slow” and rhymes with "though, dough, know, and grow" when talking about a ditch (a more common word), but is pronounced like UK English when talking about the shedding of skin, and is sometimes spelled “sluff” in this instance. In the UK it rhymes with "enough, rough, gruff, and buff." I believe there is another pronunciation, from Old English, that rhymes with “blew” and “true” and was spelled “slughe.”

Hope this is more helpful than it is confusing. :^/

The place Slough rhymes with now.When you remove s...

2008-05-22T10:44:29.228+02:00

The place Slough rhymes with now.
When you remove skin it rhymes with rough.
When it's a muddy ditch it is pronounced "slew" in the USA, but yes, it rhymes with plough in the UK.

Unfortunately in the recording I used the British pronunciation, but I have now corrected it to make the differences clearer.

The different pronunciation of slough.

Can someone tell me the point of being able to pos...

2008-05-22T08:43:24.878+02:00

Can someone tell me the point of being able to post comments if nobody bothers answering them?

This sentence contains every pronunciation of "oug...

2008-03-29T13:29:22.784+01:00

This sentence contains every pronunciation of "ough", which can be pronounced in nine different ways. I cannot tell the difference between plough and slough. I make it only eight different ways. Am I missing something?

Glad to hear it.

2007-10-03T15:45:35.994+02:00

Glad to hear it.

a very great post i think to learn about pronuncia...

2007-09-29T03:58:41.233+02:00

a very great post i think to learn about pronunciation!
as a student, it helps me a lot.

This is a great post. I love how English words var...

2006-11-10T05:43:35.796+01:00

This is a great post. I love how English words vary in pronunciation like they do.

Your pronunciation of slough reminded me of a post I wrote called Weird English. In my area we say "slew".