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Re: why if it fpelled T-R-O-U-G-H?
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Mary Krugman <[log in to unmask]>
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BP - "Preservationists shouldn't be neat freaks." -- Mary D
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Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:40:15 EDT
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In a message dated 7/21/2000 9:29:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> And, while I am on the fubject: If "trough" pronounced "tro" or "troff"?
>  And, if fo, why if it fpelled T-R-O-U-G-H?

trough - troth, troff
drought - drowth, drowt
through - thru
bough - baow
tough - tuff
ought - awt

No wonder English is so difficult.

MJ

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