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[vakkotaur]

"The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways.
The following sentence contains them all: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

But I must be missing something or not speaking in the required dialect. I only count eight different pronunciations:

1. rough - uff
2. dough - oh
3. thought - aw
4. plough - ow
5. through - oo
6. Scarborough -ah/uh
7. slough - oo (uff?)
8. cough - off
9. hiccough - up

So, what am I missing, or is the quoted text wrong? For the record my dialect would be either (Northern) Midwest or maybe Great Lakes if that is at all helpful in this.

Comments

[vakkotaur.livejournal.com]

I'd always heard "...borough" as pronounced like "burrow."

So have I, however I went with ah/uh here to try to bring the count up, really. "Borrow" would be, to me, another instance of 'oh' like 'dough'.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Scarborough can also be pronounced 'scarburruh' though.