PRONUNCIATION.
The difficulty of applying rules to the pronunciation of our language may be illustrated in two lines, where the combination of the letters ough, is pronounced in no less than seven different ways, viz. as o, uf, of, up, ow, oo, and ock.
Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me through;
O’er life’s dark lough my course I still pursue.
For the Table Book.
EMIGRATION OF THE ROOKS
FROM
CARLTON GARDENS, 1827.
“I shall not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau,
If birds confabulate or no:—
’Tis certain they were always able,
To hold discourse, at least in fable.”
Cowper.