Dublin.
_Enough._--Was this word always pronounced as at present, _enuf_? I am
inclined to think not; for Waller, in his poem "On a War with Spain,"
rhymes it with _bough_:
"Let the brave generals divide that bough,
Our great Protector hath such wreaths _enough_."
And again, in his "Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses," he couples it
with _plough_, in those anti-Malthusian lines:
"The world is of a large extent we see,
And must be peopled: children there must be!--
So must bread too; but since there are _enough_
Born to that drudgery, what need we plough?"
When did the change of pronunciation take place? Perhaps some reader of "N.
& Q." can also give the etymology of the word.