{"id":581,"date":"2013-07-21T14:23:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T14:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=581"},"modified":"2013-07-21T17:16:56","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:16:56","slug":"ough","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/?page_id=581","title":{"rendered":"&lt;ough&gt;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sequence &lt;ough&gt; is notorious for having many different pronunciations.<\/p>\n<p>1. When followed by &lt;t&gt; it is pronounced <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0254\u02d0<\/span>, as in:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bought brought dreadnought fought nought ought sought thought wrought<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Exceptions:\u00a0<em>doughty <\/em>= <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8da\u028ati<\/span>, <em>drought <\/em>= <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">dra\u028at<\/span>, and at least one of the many places called <em>Houghton<\/em> (=<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8ha\u028atn<\/span>) or <em>Loughton<\/em> (=<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u02c8la\u028atn<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>2. It is<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> u\u02d0<\/span> only in the word <em>through <\/em>and compounds thereof like <em>throughout<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>3. It is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0259<\/span> in the words <em>borough <\/em>and <em>thorough <\/em>(and its compounds).<\/p>\n<p>4. It is<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> \u0259\u028a<\/span> in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>although dough furlough though<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>5. It is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u028cf<\/span> in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brough chough Clough enough Hough rough slough (=to shed skin) tough<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>6. It is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252f<\/span> in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bough cough Gough trough<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>7. It is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">a\u028a<\/span> in<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>bough plough slough (= a ditch, a muddy place) Slough sough<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>8. It is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u028cp<\/span> in <em>hiccough<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>9. It is <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">\u0252k<\/span> in <em>lough<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Had enough?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>2013_07_21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sequence &lt;ough&gt; is notorious for having many different pronunciations. 1. When followed by &lt;t&gt; it is pronounced \u0254\u02d0, as in: bought brought dreadnought fought nought ought sought thought wrought Exceptions:\u00a0doughty = \u02c8da\u028ati, drought = dra\u028at, and at least one of the many places called Houghton (=\u02c8ha\u028atn) or Loughton (=\u02c8la\u028atn). 2. It is u\u02d0 only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/581"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/581\/revisions\/601"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/EPTips\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}