!Re: Nuke Redmond!

While I'll freely admit my formerly steel-trap mind has, occasionally of late, shown characteristics of a polyethylene colander, I took a look at my newer dictionary, dated 1971, since I seem to have misplaced the 1957 Webster, which I used during the years I was learning the proper grammar, syntax, and orthography of the language. However, I find not only evidence supporting my conception of this slippery word, but certainly as much evidence as would convince nearly anyone that all these assertions that have arisen about slew, slough, slue, or whatever, with the one exception that the two pronunciations of slough I've found are either 'sloo' or 'slow' but I'd not be surprised to find others elsewhere. This turns out to be a can of worms, which was not what I intended. Back in the '50's I was taken "jump-shooting" at ducks in a slough pronounced as 'sloo' and was given to the notion that when one said "a whole (pronounced) slew/slough/or whatever" what was meant was 'slough.' Having now examined this veritable quagmire of denotations, connotations, and puported pronunciations, I feel that I now know less than when I began. <sigh> Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: Pete Turnbull &lt;pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com&gt; To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 7:10 PM Subject: Re: !Re: Nuke Redmond!