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[cem_devecioglu]

Whats up ?  question was translated by an American in to Turkish "ne kalkık" from dictionary which led us into tears 

  Cem!

 

 

[OOMV6]

The combination "ough" can be pronounced in fourteen different ways.

 1. awe: thought, bought, fought, brought, ought, sought, nought, wrought
 
2. uff: enough, rough, tough, slough, Clough, chough, McGough (alt of 3)
 
3. ooh: through, slough, McGough (preferred)

4. oh: though, although, dough, doughnut, broughm, Ough, furlough, Greenough, thorough
 
5. off: cough, trough
 
6. ow: bough, plough, sough
 
7. ou: drought, doughty, Stoughton
 
8. uh: Scarborough, borough, thorough (alt), thoroughbred, Macdonough, Poughkeepsie
 
9. up: hiccoughed
 
10. oth: trough (alt)
 
11. ock: lough, hough
 
12. oc[h] (aspirated): lough
 
13. ahf: Gough
 
14. og: Coughlin (also per #5)


The following sentence contains all 14 ways of pronouncing "ough":
Rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman John Gough strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough on Coughlin road near the lough (dry due to drought), he coughed and hiccoughed, then checked his horse's houghs and washed up in a trough.

[Johnny English]

Should be a good thread for Laszlo

Just what I was about to post ... 

Thx maties for came to your mind I must admit I'm still wrestling of translating ...

[Johnny English]

Anyway glad that I'm not alone of feeling this proudness you can see below :

 http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=98003.msg1227116#msg1227116
 http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=98436.msg1232704#msg1232704 

As you know we pronounce everything phonetically and it often causes funny moments eg. :
- " Michelangelo ? "
- " Michael Jackson !"
that we say like this :
- " Mi kell Angelo?"
- " Máj kell Jackson!" 
After translating to English you get :
- "What do you need, Angelo?"
- "I need a liver, Jackson! " 
Anytime we talk about proudness of something in connection with our own culture it really good and warm feeling for me that there is still national identity in Europe and not just people's colourless mass exists.      Not long ago I met a quite funny situation as I heard in a lesson in some foreign culture context that "tie bow" but I meant "thai bow" and thought about a special kind of greeting in Thailand haha...Thanks guys for lots of invaluable help and endless patience I got !    (...and hopely I'll got... )