My reading of the phonetic alphabet (and my ear in everyday speech) tells me
that it rhymes with "now".
--
Piers
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Bernard Frangoulis
Sent: 26 July 2006 12:36
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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] Short translation?
>And in the New Oxford Dictionary of English as well. But the "Origin"
paragraph mentions that "the word was originally used as a noun in slough of
despond".
Actually I should have spelt "Slough of Despond", I guess. And it is "sleu",
not "sluf" (trying to render the phonetic alphabet here). Learning...
Bernard
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