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Originally Posted By: FaldageOriginally Posted By: etaoinOriginally Posted By: The Pook
uh, as in borough
maybe with an accent, burruh? buroh for me.
Of course, you don't have an accent. Everyone else does, but not you.
That's uh as in the sound of the 'a' in loofa.
You say boo-roh? (is that what buroh means?). In the singular I could sometimes say buh-roh, but in the plural, as in 'the rotten boroughs' I would say burras, not buh-rohs.
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