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Weather words

Weather words include several -ough spellings that each take a different sound, plus long Greek compounds like meteorological. Drought rhymes with out, not thought. Watch the stress on the long words, which sits well inside the word rather than at the start.


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To read the rules behind these words, see the pronunciation guides — including silent letters, word stress and American vs British. Or hear each accent on its own page: American, British, Australian.