Talk:clough
Pronunciation
editDoes clough rhyme with tough? -- Irene1949 17:56, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
- probably, judging from the alternative spelling "cloff". DCDuring TALK 16:48, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
- Thank you. -- Irene1949 10:34, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- I'm originally from northern England and can confirm that it always rhymes with 'tough' - never heard anyone rhyme it with 'how'! Geopersona (talk) 08:05, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thank you. -- Irene1949 10:34, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
RE:Request for US pronunciation audio
editThere's a request for audio from an American speaker, but clough doesn't appear to be part of AmE. Neither the Oxford US nor Merriam-Webster dictionaries have the word. Can the request template be removed from the main page? --Hotshot977 (talk) 05:10, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- It's glossed as Northern England and US, but I'm not sure why. (That definition came from Webster 1913, which does not have those glosses on it.) Equinox ◑ 13:22, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
- Century has something about the pronunciation. DCDuring TALK 15:37, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
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rfv-sense: A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land. Notusbutthem (talk) 23:22, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
I also add to this RFV the following senses:
- A cliff; a rocky precipice. Middle English only. OED is uncertain whether "cliff" is even the correct signification of this sense.
- Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight... (Etymology 2). A likely dictionary-only spelling. Claimed to be an erroneous form of cloff. If kept, it should be relegated to an alternative form.
This, that and the other (talk) 11:40, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
cited the ravine, the sluice, and the weight allowance. I have not managed to cite the cliff. Kiwima (talk) 08:11, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
RFV-resolved Kiwima (talk) 19:45, 2 January 2022 (UTC)