slough

Ah, the slough of despond. In UK English, it rhymes with cow. In US English it rhymes with pew. (I used to live near Midshipman Slough, near Tubbs Island, in Sonoma county.) I spent a lovely week in Slough, England (near Maidenhead, Windsor, and Eton). The so-called poet, John Betjeman, wrote a famous poem starting:
Quote:
Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough
It isn't fit for humans now,
There isn't grass to graze a cow
Swarm over, Death!

Ceci n'est pas un seing.