Re: Perfect Pitch
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 25, 2000, 19:30 |
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John Cowan wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Danny Wier wrote:
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> > The most extreme example was "ough", which altogether
> > was numbered between 1 and 6. (Yes, Virginia, there are six sounds for
> > "ough".
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> More than that: tough /Vf/, through /u/, though /ow/ ~ /@w/,
> cough /Of/, sought /O/, borough /ow/ ~ /@/, hough /ok/, hiccough /Vp/.
Isn't the last of these a relatively recent spelling convention? I believe
I read somewhere the original spelling was <hiccup>, which was
respelled analogically with <cough>.
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