16 AUGUST 1902, Page 16

OUR STRANGE LANGUAGE.

[TO TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1

the days of my youth we children were taught the

following lines as a guide to the right pronunciation of ough :- " Though the tough cough and hiccough plough me through, O'er life's dark lough my course I still pursue."

1 Clarendon Villas, Bavenscourt Park, W.