4. Slough
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrh8Y4g0pCs&feature=youtu.be Here's a trick place name! The word Slough has three pronunciations and the correct one to use depends on the context! "Sluff" is used when a snake sheds its skin and "slew" when slogging through mud. But for the actual place, the word is said as "sl-ow", with the "ow" said as if an exclamation of pain. No insult intended to the town. Our volunteer got this one right but she thought most Americans would either say "slow" (as in "not fast") or go for one of the other ways of saying the word, since they're more common in American English. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4bMQlQhAk
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Mike has lived in the UK, Japan and the USA. Currently, he is based in Iowa with his wife and 2 young children. After working for many years as a writer and editor for a large corporation, he is now a freelancer. He has been fortunate enough to contribute to many books on Doctor Who over the last 20 years and is now concentrating on original sci-fi & fantasy short stories, with recent sales including Flame Tree, Uffda, and The Martian Wave. Also, look for his contribution on Blake's 7 to "You and Who Else", a charity anthology to be released later this year.
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