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OP One kind of puzzle in my word-puzzle book gives you an alphabetical listing of oh, 40 to 60 syllables, followed by clues for the 20-25 words to make of them.
One I had to read the clue to get was pharaoh. They had AOH as the first syllable in the list, which you would have thought I'd get, since it's such an unusual spelling.
But I have always heard pharaoh pronounced as fay-row. Is this simply a regional thing for me? Are there people who pronounce it as fair-owe, which is the only pronunciation I can come up with that explains the book's dividing it into phar and aoh.
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