How do you say slough? I ask because I listened to a book recently where the narrator pronounced it completely different from the way I do. Of course I had to look it up and it seems that there are three pronunciations!
The book I was listening to on Audible was Before We Were Yours (a book worth reading or listening to if you like Historical Fiction) by Lisa Wingate, narrated by Emily Ranking, Catherine Taber. In the book they pronounce the word as ‘sluff’, which I thought made sense… like enough.
I pronounce it ‘sloo’ like blue, as does everyone else I know. But another pronunciation that came up on one of the pronunciation sites I went to was ‘slow’ like cow.
Anyway… I stopped at a slough on the way to the daughter and son-in-laws new house and spent a bit of time studying the birds that I have been noticing lately when I drive out to their place.
Can you believe there were so many different birds in one little slough? I only stopped for about 15 minutes to get these and there were several other birds that I did not get images of or the ones I did get ( black-necked stilts) that were just THAT BAD so you don’t get to see them.
We have such an abundance of absolutely beautiful wild fowl in breeding colours right now. I will be out again soon.
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