[email protected] wrote: > > Remember in these "how to pronounce" discussion that we don't all pronounce > "now" "how" or many other words sometimes used for examples the same way. > Don't assume you know what it sounds like until you've heard it spoken. > > Karen > True, Karen, but I can't think of a place where "how" is pronounced as "hoe" or "now" as "no", though maybe I'm forgetting something very obvious. Certainly in Scots "how" can be pronounced as "hoo" and "now" as "noo", but if these pronunciations are intended, spelling will normally indicate that. I've come to the conclusion that proper Orkney people do indeed pronounce "Flow" to rhyme with (for want of a better example) "how", and I intend to mend my ways accordingly. Norman Tulloch