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In having the hero of my story make this very observation to my heroine, I realized that the words 'through', 'cough', 'rough', 'bough', and 'dough' all mean that the letters 'ough' can be pronounced five different ways! This greatly amuses the language geek in me, and I have been trying to figure out whether there are other words in English that end in 'ough' that involve other sounds besides those of the words here. Can anyone think of any? Credit to [livejournal.com profile] mamishka for the suggestion to post the question!
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