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.

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_For the Table Book._