How do you pronounce "slough"?
Ken Fortenberry
>
> ...
> I guess I'd expect to here "slew" here out West...
That's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced.
From _Exploring the Yellowstone Backcountry_ by Orville
Bach, Jr., p. 197
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In 1867 a gold prospector, when asked by a traveling party
about this stream, described it as "but a slough." However
when the party reached the creek they encountered a rushing
torrent and lost a fully loaded pack horse while crossing it.
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--
Ken Fortenberry
ke...@uiuc.edu
Charlie Choc
>Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it.
I think slough and sluice are pronounced the same around here (for
what *that's* worth<g>).
--
Charlie...
Mike Connor
are going to read this post ! :)) "Slough", is also a place in England.
Many
insect larvae, and snakes as well, "slough" their skins regularly. This
means old skin is shed. Often to allow for growth.
TL
MC
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impossible"
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"Jonathan Cook" <jc...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
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> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
Walt Winter
Jonathan Cook wrote:
> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
swamp.
waldo, pronouncier of the south
Wolfgang
Jonathan Cook wrote:
> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
>
> Here's the dictionary:
>
> Main Entry: slough
> Pronunciation: 'slü, 'slau; in the US (exc New England) 'slü
> is usual for sense 1 with those to whom the sense is
> familiar; British usually 'slau for both senses
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Middle English slogh, from Old English slOh; akin to
> Middle High German slouche ditch
> Date: before 12th century
> 1 a : a place of deep mud or mire b (1) : SWAMP (2) : an inlet on a
> river; also : BACKWATER (3) : a creek in a marsh or tide flat
> 2 : a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection
> - sloughy /-E/ adjective
>
> I guess I'd expect to here "slew" here out West...
I've also heard it pronounced as "slow", though infrequently. To further
complicate matters, there is another meaning for the word--to discard--as in
to slough off skin, which is pronounced "sluff". Incidentally, this is a fine
example of heteronyms, words which are spelled the same but pronounced
differently and have completely unrelated meanings. One of America's most
popular game fishes is also a heteronym.
Wolfgang
I am SO a meniscus!
p.s. the reference to Middle High German seems to suggest that sluice derives
from the same root.
ET1
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
Grew up fishing in various Sloughs SW of Chicago. Always heard
it pronounced like "slew", as in "I slew the dragon." No idea
if that's correct though.
- Ken
Rick Courtright
>
> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
Hi,
The pronunciation I grew up with in SoCal is "slew" and we usually thought of it as a
swampish backwater, not much for fishing. You know the foot to two foot deep, full of
plants and muck kind of stuff. Sometimes I've heard it used as a shallow waterway
connecting two larger bodies of water.
But sometimes we'd find snakes in the "slew" that would "sluff" (same spelling) off
their skins, just to add confusion!
Cheers,
Rick
Wayne Hart
Jonathan Cook <jc...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
>
Pronounced "slew" the term means the deep cuts in rocky streams and
rivers usually formed by erosion in solid rock. Sloughs are often
formed by the erosion of softer layers in sedimentary rock leaving
stair-step prominences which may be parallel or at right angles to the
flow.
Same term is applied to the channel between the beach proper and first
bar at the Outer Banks when surf fishing. Watch the slough when you
wade out, the tide might trap you on the bar. The slough is also the
place to fish at times.
--
Wayne
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Before you buy.
Kevin Vang
If you are talking about Slough Creek in Yellowstone Nat. Park, then
"slew." Same for Poindexter's Slough, just south of Dillon, which is
actually a spring creek, though there is some swampy ground around
the edges which might be considered a slough.
Here in ND, we call anybody of still water which is too small to be
called a lake "slough." Also, we use "slew" as a slang expression for
a large amount of something, so one might say, "Last October we slew
a whole slew of ducks over that slough."
Kevin
Gary S. Colecchio
>Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
>regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
>fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
Slew.
I prefer the mispronunciation "slouwdge" myself. It's fun to get
corrected by some lame, humorless, biology-centric dweeb.
But I'm a wise -ass.
Here it's called back-country.
...and according to Flip Pallot, it's Snuke
As in puke.
Capt. Gary S. Colecchio
West Palm Beach
"The only people who have any business fishing are
young boys and married men. Everyone else should be
out getting laid." ...I said that.
ArnSaga
sloHaz.
Slough your skin after exposure to poison ivy = sluf. Perhaps from the
Proto-Germanic sluk.
(My thanks to the Chambers Dictionary of Etymology.)
GKT
Peter Collin
slough, where you can plough through the rough fish that make you exclaim,
"WOUGH!"
Pete Collin
Wolfgang Siebeneich
BOUGH WOUGH!!
Wolfgang
man's best friend
John Popp
varmits.
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>
> Jonathan Cook wrote:
>
> > Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> > regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> > fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
>
John Popp
Wolfgang <wolf...@post.its.mcw.edu> wrote in message
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>
> Jonathan Cook wrote:
>
> > Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> > regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> > fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
> >
> >
> > Main Entry: slough
> > Pronunciation: 'slü, 'slau; in the US (exc New England) 'slü
> > is usual for sense 1 with those to whom the sense is
> > familiar; British usually 'slau for both senses
> > Function: noun
> > Etymology: Middle English slogh, from Old English slOh; akin to
> > Middle High German slouche ditch
> > Date: before 12th century
> > 1 a : a place of deep mud or mire b (1) : SWAMP (2) : an inlet on
a
> > river; also : BACKWATER (3) : a creek in a marsh or tide flat
> > 2 : a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection
> > - sloughy /-E/ adjective
> >
>
> complicate matters, there is another meaning for the word--to discard--as
in
> to slough off skin, which is pronounced "sluff". Incidentally, this is a
fine
> example of heteronyms, words which are spelled the same but pronounced
> differently and have completely unrelated meanings. One of America's most
> popular game fishes is also a heteronym.
>
> Wolfgang
> I am SO a meniscus!
> p.s. the reference to Middle High German seems to suggest that sluice
derives
> from the same root.
Damn, I thought it was a straight homonym.
RalphH
Jonathan Cook wrote:
> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
>
> Here's the dictionary:
>
> Main Entry: slough
> Pronunciation: 'slü, 'slau; in the US (exc New England) 'slü
> is usual for sense 1 with those to whom the sense is
> familiar; British usually 'slau for both senses
> Function: noun
> Etymology: Middle English slogh, from Old English slOh; akin to
> Middle High German slouche ditch
> Date: before 12th century
> 1 a : a place of deep mud or mire b (1) : SWAMP (2) : an inlet on a
> river; also : BACKWATER (3) : a creek in a marsh or tide flat
> 2 : a state of moral degradation or spiritual dejection
> - sloughy /-E/ adjective
>
> I guess I'd expect to here "slew" here out West...
>
> JonCook.
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Wolfgang Siebeneich
John Popp wrote:
>
>
> Damn, I thought it was a straight homonym.
Confusing homonyms and heteronyms can lead one into very serious social
blunders. Although the former have been known to set up housekeeping
together virtually everywhere, conjoining them is still quite illegal in
most states.
Wolfgang
who's grammars died when he was very young.
MrGink
> addendum- shallow swamp- pronounced "slew" as in thet thar slough fula
> varmits.
>
> Walt Winter <w...@boone.net> wrote in message
addendum #2 - shallow swamp - pronounced "slow slew" as in thet thaaar
slough fula ruffians.
--
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"the sage continues"
Donald Phillipson
> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
In Britain, usually "sloo" rhyming with through;
except that there is a town near London named Slough,
pronounced to rhyme with plough (English for plow.)
--
| Donald Phillipson, dphil...@trytel.com |
| Carlsbad Springs, Ottawa, Canada |
Brian Corll
always pronounced it slough as in rough, until I got to Vassar my freshman
year and someone informed me it was slow as in sow.
"Jonathan Cook" <jc...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
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> Seriously, I've never heard someone actually say it. Are there
> regional differences? And what exactly does it mean in trout-
> fishing context? The definitions below don't seem to quite fit.
>
Optiker/Optika
"slue" as in rhyming with "clue." However, isn't that the same spelling for
the verb that in card games is used to mean getting rid of unwanted cards,
or with regard to animals shedding their skin? If so, I think that word is
pronounced as if it was spelled "sluff" as in "stuff".
--
Optiker/Optika
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