# Argh the English Language, Part LXVII

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 4, 2019, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-the-english-language-part-lxvii/843002 "2019-11-04T21:41:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-the-english-language-part-lxvii/843002/21 "2019-11-06T14:10:51Z")

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> [@Treppenwitz](#):
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> Returning briefly to _ough_ - there’s a fine Dave Gorman joke in which he recounts looking at a hoarding on the site of the new Loughborough University London Campus. For those that don’t know, Loughborough University the UK’s foremost student athlete establishment, and is pronounced _Luff-Burra_. As he is standing there, Gorman is asked by a passing, puzzled American tourist: _how do you say that_? to which he replies: _Low-Brow_.
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> Nitpick-ish: strictly autoantonyms. Looking at [this list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym#Examples_of_English-language_auto-antonyms), same pronunciation appears to be the norm. My fave (not on the list) is _Horrorshow_, now used to mean something awful, but [invented by Anthony Burgess](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:A_Clockwork_Orange#H) to mean good.
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> j

Burgess didn’t invent it; he just anglicized the Russian word.

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**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argh-the-english-language-part-lxvii/843002/22 "2019-11-06T14:13:58Z")

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> [@JohnGalt](#):
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> “After my mother had to slough an ace and lost the card game, she went down to the slough to look at the ducks.”
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> (Although my mother would spell them sluff and slue or slew)

Is that the slough in [Slough](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slough)?

j

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