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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
hiccough is hic-cup, just fancier. lough is lew. I didn't know that one until my late 30s and moving to the northwest. there were many signs announcing "such and such lough". I had to ask my uncle who had been resident for about 20 years about both the pronunciation and meaning... it is an area of seawater that is all but landlocked. it receives quite often fresh water as well, but will always have too much seawater to make it potable. the advantage to these that are navigable is that they make dandy sheltered waterways... sheltered from violent water activity that is
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Also pronounced lock (or loch) in Northern England.
An alternative I've seen used for lough in that part of the poem is slough, which can have several pronunciations, but I like 'sluff', which is the pronunciation when it's the verb meaning to shed (something). E.g. The snake sloughed its old skin.