tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post23176744037806833..comments2023-04-10T05:18:36.315-07:00Comments on amo vitam: SloughAMOffenwangerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04429398915780302831noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post-77428573337734500842012-08-20T11:32:02.243-07:002012-08-20T11:32:02.243-07:00Good grief, the English language is complicated, a...Good grief, the English language is complicated, ain't it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post-79349302726630798162012-08-19T17:24:44.221-07:002012-08-19T17:24:44.221-07:00Well, Leigh, I only recently learned that your nam...Well, Leigh, I only recently learned that your name is pronounced "Lee", not "Lay" like I'd always said it. We live and learn. So I guess "Slow" is yet another way of pronouncing Slough. And quite possibly the "correct" way in the deep South. Apparently coulees are something different in different parts of America, too; only the Saskatchewan ones are dry ditches. Elsewhere they're lakes or rivers or something.AMOffenwangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04429398915780302831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post-55463563873137408892012-08-19T16:30:34.955-07:002012-08-19T16:30:34.955-07:00Good stuff! You know what's funny? Growing up ...Good stuff! You know what's funny? Growing up in the south, we learned to pronounce things much closer to the English way of saying them than the "American," I guess. So I said "slough" as "slow" for years until I heard someone I thought knew more say "slew." Then I changed... Silly English. :D LTMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05239077455322030275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2271063888121299568.post-1137444902811290312012-08-19T08:59:40.121-07:002012-08-19T08:59:40.121-07:00LOL! Well, you know I speak prairie! I also have...LOL! Well, you know I speak prairie! I also have enough Brits among my married-ins to have been educated on the proper pronunciation of 'Rowling'. (They ARE pronouncing slough wrong, however. We get that one because we have WAY more of them than they do.) Anyway, your photograph is beautiful. I look at sloughs and think 'mosquitoes' and 'leaches' and 'farm runoff'. I'd forgotten that they were beautiful.Desihttp://thevalentine4.comnoreply@blogger.com