OughHow To Pronounce Words Written With ‘OUGH’ Correctly In English? sounds
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OughHow To Pronounce Words Written With ‘OUGH’ Correctly In English? sounds
- 1. How To Pronounce ‘OUGH’ In English EXLenglish.com
- 3. The ‘OUGH’ letter combination is one of the most unpredictable to pronounce becasue there are 6 variations in American English and 10 in British English 1
- 4. Have you thought this through thoroughly enough?
- 5. Originally, Anglo-Saxon words were written with an ‘H’ to indicate a voiceless velar fricative in words like ‘Bach’ with a ‘hard H’ sound 2
- 6. The ‘voiceless velar fricative’ is a rasp in the back of the throat in words like ‘Loch’3
- 7. Then around the 13th century, when the French invaded and began to influence the English language…a ’G’ was added to the ‘H’ to represent this ‘voiceless velar fricative’ 4
- 8. But later, around the 17th century, the voiceless velar fricative began to change.
- 9. In some places, the "gh" disappeared completely like in “through" and “bought". In others, it was converted to a ‘voiceless labiodental fricative’ (a rasp between the teeth and lips) that now sounds like an "f“ in words like ‘cough’ and ‘enough’. 5
- 10. OUGH as in ‘Though’ EIGH as in ‘Neighbor’ AUGH as in ‘Taught’ IGH as in ‘High’
- 12. OUGH = /oʊ/ (Long O) • Dough • Furlough • Though • Thorough • Although Pronounced with the ‘Long O’ (oh) sound in words like 'toe‘, ‘no’ or ‘go’
- 13. I love mixing bread dough
- 14. The missionaries are home on furlough
- 15. I like it even though it smells weird
- 16. He always does a thorough job
- 17. I understand. Although I don’t think it’s a very good excuse
- 18. OUGH = /uː/ (Long U) • Through • Throughout • Throughput • Throughway • Pronounced with the ‘Long U’ (oo) sound in words like ‘too’, ‘threw’, or ‘shoe’
- 19. It was too big to fit through the door
- 20. He traveled there often throughout his lifetime
- 21. They spend the day trying to measure througput on the server
- 22. An accident prevented us from getting on the throughway
- 23. OUGH /ɔː/ = (AW sound) • Bought • Brought • Ought • Sought • Thought • Wrought • Regularly used before the letter /t/ • One exception in the word ‘Drought’
- 24. I bought a new house last year
- 25. She brought me some coffee
- 26. You ought to go with them
- 27. They sought new ways to increase productivity
- 28. He thought she was nuts
- 29. It wrought a terrible plague
- 30. OUGH = /aʊ/ (OW sound) • Bough • Plough • Drought • Pronounced with the 'Ow' sound in words like 'cow‘, ‘now’ or ‘how’
- 31. The bough fell off during the storm
- 32. He hates to plough his farm
- 33. They suffered a severe drought
- 34. OUGH = /ɒf/ (OFF) • Cough (coff) • Trough (troff) • Pronounced with the ‘Off' sound in words like ‘scoff‘or ‘stroganoff’
- 35. She was coughing all afternoon
- 36. The horses drank from the trough
- 37. OUGH /ʌf/ = (Uff) • Enough • Rough • Slough • Tough • Prounced as ‘uff’ in words like ‘cuff’, ‘stuff’ or ‘buff’
- 38. That’s enough for today
- 39. It was a rough game
- 40. He always sloughs off on the job
- 41. She is one tough boss
- 42. One final exception is the word ‘hiccup’ which you may see spelled ‘hiccough’
- 43. Have fun and practice pronouncing these words with the ‘OUGH’ letter combinations!
- 44. Bibliography 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography) 2. http://www.howtospell.co.uk/gh-words 3. https://www.quora.com/Pronunciation/How-did-gh-at-the-end- ofsome-words-become-an-eff-sound 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ-g8iF3Fdk 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ-g8iF3Fdk
- 45. More ESL Info on ‘OUGH’ • http://rachelsenglish.com/pronounce-ough/ • http://www.pronuncian.com/Podcast/Default.aspx?Episode=205 • http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/intermediate/ unit-9/session-1