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Ough is a four-letter sequence, a tetragraph, used in English orthography and notorious for its unpredictable pronunciation. [1] It has at least eight pronunciations in North American English and nine in British English , and no discernible patterns exist for choosing among them.
ough has ten possible pronunciations, five of which make vowel sounds: /aʊ/ as in drought, /ɔː/ as in bought, /oʊ/ as in though, /uː/ as in through, and /ə/ as in thorough. ueue represents /juː/, as in queue. yrrh represents /ɜː/ in RP, as in myrrh. There are four examples of vowel tetragraphs that are found only in proper nouns:
Ough may refer to: Ough (orthography), a letter sequence in English orthography; Ough (surname) Ough, Nebraska, a community in the United States
English orthography comprises the set of rules used when writing the English language, [1] [2] allowing readers and writers to associate written graphemes with the sounds of spoken English, as well as other features of the language. [3] English's orthography includes norms for spelling, hyphenation, capitalisation, word breaks, emphasis, and ...
Pages in category "English orthography" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. ... Ough (orthography) Oxford spelling; P. English possessive;
Likewise, many graphemes in English have multiple pronunciations and decodings, such as ough in words like thr ough, th ough, th ough t, thor ough, t ough, tr ough, and pl ough. There are 13 ways of spelling the schwa (the most common of all phonemes in English), 12 ways to spell /ei/ and 11 ways to spell /ɛ/. These kinds of incoherences can ...
I think the only room in this article, based on current contents, is in the table of the different pronunciations of the orthography. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 10:09, 31 March 2023 (UTC) I see this text under the table: The two occurrences of ough in the English place name Loughborough are pronounced differently, resulting in / ˈ l ʌ f b ə r ...
In the dominant dialects of modern English, gh is almost always either silent or pronounced /f/ (see Ough). It is thought that before disappearing, the sound became partially or completely voiced to [ɣx] or [ɣ] , which would explain the new spelling — Old English used a simple h — and the diphthongization of any preceding vowel.