Pronunciation of "Hough"
Alan Filipski
I have been reading papers on something called a "Hough transform"?
Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the name "Hough" in
"Hough transform"? "How"? "Hoff"? A guttural choking sound?
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Patrick A. Townson
>I have been reading papers on something called a "Hough transform"?
>Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the name "Hough" in
>"Hough transform"? "How"? "Hoff"? A guttural choking sound?
A reporter for the {Chicago Sun Times} for many years was named
Hugh Hough. The first name rhymed with 'you' and the last name rhymed
with 'owe', as in 'you owe me money'. However others with the same
spelling sometimes pronounce it 'huff', as in 'he left in a huff'.
The Chicago Telephone Directory a few years ago had these names which I
guess one would say have 'polite' and 'impolite' ways of saying them:
Shitt Shiit (there were a couple of each, apparently 'shy teh' is the
way they prefer it.)
Then there was a high school teacher I had named Mr. Banus who was
frequently called 'Banus the anus' ... but the preferred pronunciation was
'ban' (as in ban the bomb) 'oose' as in goose without a /g/.
Speaking of which, is the planet's name pronounced 'your anus' or
'youra -nus'? It was never a problem until the space flight got there and
the TV commentators had to start pronouncing it politely.
The phone book here a couple years ago also has a Ms. Pussy, and the
preferred pronounciation was pooze-ee as in booze.
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David W. Tamkin
<1990Dec21.0...@chinet.chi.il.us>:
| In article <14...@gtx.com> a...@gtx.UUCP (Alan Filipski) writes:
|
| >I have been reading papers on something called a "Hough transform"?
| >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the name "Hough" in
| >"Hough transform"? "How"? "Hoff"? A guttural choking sound?
|
| A reporter for the {Chicago Sun Times} for many years was named
| Hugh Hough. The first name rhymed with 'you' and the last name rhymed
| with 'owe', as in 'you owe me money'. However others with the same
| spelling sometimes pronounce it 'huff', as in 'he left in a huff'.
A major road in Barrington, Illinois, (a Chicago suburb) is Hough Street,
pronounced "huff."
| Speaking of which, is the planet's name pronounced 'your anus' or
| 'youra -nus'? It was never a problem until the space flight got there and
| the TV commentators had to start pronouncing it politely.
Neither "your anus" nor "urine us" sounds more polite or refined than the
other. That leaves us with "you RAN us," which is clearly a contrivance to
avoid saying either "your anus" or "urine us."
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Victor Eijkhout
>| Speaking of which, is the planet's name pronounced 'your anus' or
>| 'youra -nus'? It was never a problem until the space flight got there and
>| the TV commentators had to start pronouncing it politely.
>Neither "your anus" nor "urine us" sounds more polite or refined than the
>other. That leaves us with "you RAN us," which is clearly a contrivance to
>avoid saying either "your anus" or "urine us."
The whole problem seems to be that the 'U' is pronounced 'you'
which is not right if you consider the Greek descent of the
word. Try a pronunciation like 'Ooranus'. (I mean if you
say Noo York instead of Nyu York, this shouldn't be tu hard :-)
Victor.
Victor Eijkhout
>[...] (I mean if you
>say Noo York instead of Nyu York, this shouldn't be tu hard :-)
I should have said: if you pronounce it Noo York instead
of Nieuw Amsterdam the way it should be...
Victor.
Norm Strong
}| >Does anyone know the correct pronunciation of the name "Hough" in
}| >"Hough transform"? "How"? "Hoff"? A guttural choking sound?
The number of pronunciations of 'ough' in English is truly wondrous. Here
are 5, and I'll bet someone will be able to add to the list:
though, as in low
slough, as in slew
bough, as in how
tough, as in huff
cough, as in off
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Victor Eijkhout
>The number of pronunciations of 'ough' in English is truly wondrous. Here
>are 5, and I'll bet someone will be able to add to the list:
>though, as in low
>slough, as in slew
>bough, as in how
>tough, as in huff
>cough, as in off
Given that last one, how could you have missed
hiccough, as in cup
Victor.
Steve Thomas
>str...@tc.fluke.COM (Norm Strong) writes:
>>The number of pronunciations of 'ough' in English is truly wondrous. Here
>>are 5, and I'll bet someone will be able to add to the list:
>>though, as in low
>>slough, as in slew
Though Slough, a town in England, rhymes with `how'.
>>bough, as in how
>>tough, as in huff
>>cough, as in off
>Given that last one, how could you have missed
>hiccough, as in cup
Let's add
hough, as in hock
thorough, as in uh
There is a ninth, but it escapes me just at the moment.
Steve Thomas
Ken Mintz
> hiccough, as in cup
I wonder if this is truly a special pronunciation or simply a "decoding"
substitution. That is, rather than pronounce the word we see, I wonder
if we substitute (and pronounce) a different word automatically.
When we look at hiccough, I believe we automatically substitute hiccup
and pronounce the latter. The same kind of decoding substitution applies
to catsup, which is sometimes pronounced as it appears and sometimes
pronounced the same as its variant, ketchup.
Splitting hairs? Perhaps. The significance in my mind lies in the
extensibility of the rule. Can you think of any other word in which
"ough" is pronounced "up" (or "ats" as "ech")?
I wonder if such "pronunciations" (decoding substitutions) simply reflect
quirks of speech that have found their way into common usage. Another
example of this phenomenon is inserting non-existent syllables, e.g.,
pronuncing mischievous as mis-chee'-vi-ous. Generally regarded as
"non-standard" American English, there are some regional dialects in which
this is considered to be quite proper. But I don't think we would conclude
that "ous" is sometimes pronounced "ious".
Admittedly, hiccough and catsup are quite different inasmuch as their
unusual pronunciation is indeed standard American English. (I wonder how
hiccough is pronounced in Britain.)
-- Ken Mintz
Alton Harkcom
The YWCA in Hong Kong is on 'Man Fuk Road'... I don't know how it is
pronounced by natives...
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