From: | James Landau <neurotico@...> |
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Date: | Thursday, February 6, 2003, 17:14 |
John Cowan parisen:>Eight: bough, though, enough, cough, bought, through, hough, borough. >Not all dialects distinguish all of these. (In RI they are >bough, tho, enuff, coff, baught, thru, hock, burro respectively.) >Even more remarkably, these eight pronunciations are distributed over >only about 30 words altogether.What about "hiccough"?