Re: USAGE: Language revival

John Cowan wrote:
> Okay, if you don't like "gaol", then contemplate "through" /Tru/,
> "though" /Do/, "rough" /rVf/, "cough" /kO:f/, "bough" /bau/,
> "furlough" /fVrlo/, "borough" /bOr@ ~ bOro/, "hough" /h0k ~ hak/,
> and "hiccough" /hIk@p/.  The last two are probably singletons.
There's also the Irish dialectal "lough", which ends in /x/, I'm not
sure of the vowel.

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