Ough is a four-letter sequence, a tetragraph, used in English orthography and notorious for its unpredictable pronunciation. It has at least eight pronunciations...

Look up ough in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ough may refer to: Ough (orthography), a letter sequence in English orthography Ough (surname) Ough, Nebraska...

/ / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. English orthography is the writing system used to represent spoken English, allowing readers...

connotations of fairy tales. Cacography Catachresis Eye dialect Lolcat Ough (orthography) § Spelling reforms Satirical misspelling Spelling reform Typographical...

before the cheap Penny Post and while paper was taxed, the combination ough was occasionally shortened to ô when the gh was not pronounced, to save space:...

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...

reform the spelling of the English language. It seeks to change English orthography so that it is more consistent, matches pronunciation better, and follows...

different sounds: /eɪ/ as in weigh, /aɪ/ as in height, and /iː/ as in Leigh. ⟨ough⟩ has ten possible pronunciations, five of which make vowel sounds: /aʊ/ as...

not have tetragraphs in native words (the closest is perhaps the sequence -ough in words like through), but chth is a true tetragraph when found initially...

she, sardine, sunny, chief, seize, eat). Similarly, the letter cluster ough represents /ʌf/ as in enough, /oʊ/ as in though, /uː/ as in through, /ɒf/...

"diamond" /aɪl/ /l/ ⟨ile⟩ ㅏ일 ail 미사일 misail "missile" /aʊ/ ⟨au⟩; ⟨ou⟩; ⟨ough⟩; ⟨ow⟩ ㅏ우 au 타운 taun "town" /aʊə(ɹ)/ /aʊɚ/ ⟨our⟩; ⟨ower⟩ ㅏ워ㄹ awor ㅏ워 awo...

Reading Instruction Using Behavioural and Neural Findings in an Artificial Orthography" (PDF). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 146 (6). Journal...

spelling reform alternative to the semi-regular conventional English orthography (EO). TSR is a relatively conservative scheme. It seeks to identify the...

endings to -er ("calibre" and "sabre" to "caliber" and "saber"), changing "ough" to "o" to represent the long vowel sound in the new words altho, tho and...

Perlman). The English voiceless labialized velar approximant /hw/ (orthographically wh), which is a distinct phoneme from /w/ in some varieties of English...

Reforms of French orthography German orthography reform of 1996 English orthography English spelling-to-sound correspondences Orthography Spelling reform...

pronunciations of Modern English words in -ough- (e.g. though, through, bough, rough, trough, thought, with -ough- pronounced /ou/, /uː/, /au/, /ʌf/, /ɒf/...