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rescuer | 17:24 Tue 15th Jan 2008 | Word Origins
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The following words contain 'ough'. Can you add any more?
plough, bough, though, dough,
enough, rough, bought,
thought, cough, trough,
through, hiccough. lough

My thanks in anticipation of many additions to my list
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Americans sometimes pronounce slough as slew, though these days they're more likely actually to spell it slew ('a whole slew of troubles')
Rough
Hiccough is a sort of made up word. The "correct" word is "hiccup". The spelling "hiccough" is due to a confusion with "cough". (Chambers Dictionary)
The Oxford English Dictionary (the big one, not the Concise) also lists:

youghendale (a variant of yokindale, a Scottish coin)

yough fro (a variant of jungfrau)

yought (a variant spelling of yacht)

Their pronunciation (/oak/, /ung/ and /ott/) should be different from all the other examples given, though since the words/spellings are pretty obsolete, this is uncertain.
In case you were wondering, I discovered this while looking to see if the OED allows youghurt as an alternative spelling of yoghurt (it doesn't, though it is widely used - and this would give us /oag/).

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