A local journalist in today's Press of Atlantic City, in citing the weather term, said trof is now used interchangeably with trough. I've never seen it spelled that way, I don't like that form, I'm just not comfortable with what seems a cheapening of the language for convenience...it's more like a flimsy bastardization than an ongoing evolution of language...even good slang is better than that.

But then, of course, there's draught and draft...but the former (draught) has to be beer in my eyes.

Here's the article:

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/062105SPRING_J21.cfm

What'd'yall think?