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Janet Baraclough writes:
| The message
| from Dave Roberts contains
| these words:
|
| Slightly off topic, sorry for that, but the one pronunciation that
| catches a nerve with me is couch grass. Why do some people pronounce it
| as coo-ch, surely it has to be cow-ch.
| Would you ask someone to sit down on the coo-ch?
|
| Your nerve must be out of touch.

Nah. He's just overheated, and needs to jump in the louch[*].

[*] A variant spelling of loch.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.