Word: ough
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...folks day gwine make you feel black-assed. Never seed a white man smile at me befo'. How come dat 'plies, Nat? Figger a white man treat you right you gwine feel white-assed. Naw suh! Young Massah, old massah sweet-talk me, I jes' feel black-assed th'ough and th'ough. Figger when I gets to heaven like you say I is, do good Lord hisself even He gwine make old Hark feel black-assed, standin' befo' de golden throne. Dere He is, white as snow, givin' me a lot of sweet talk and me feelin' like...
...adds, "it could have fragmented us if we had to compete for funds from a smaller grant. But this grant was ample en- ough to avoid the invidious process of stating why our department is more worthy of funds than another...
...Thus the u in up is printed in yellow, and so are the identical-sounding o in done, oe in does, oo in blood. The o in no is tan, and so are seven other spellings that sound the same, like the eau in beau and the ough in though. There are 27 colors for consonant sounds. The sound of n in no is lavender, as is the kn in know and the gn in gnat...
...ough), and the Program called for two more to be built "in the vicinity of the Yard." In practice this objective was never met. A third dormitory, Pennypacker, was purchased and remodeled, but to date no construction of new facilities has taken place. Instead, the interiors of all 18th and 19th century dormitories were extensively rebuilt, while their exteriors remained intact...
...soon learned that there was something different about the kindly young schoolmaster in the somber black suit. Fractious kids jumped to obey him; backward boys seemed to brighten. Even old Deacon Greenough was won over. He started coming over to dinner every Sunday night, bringing free bottles of Green-ough's Horseradish with...