How now brown cow
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how-now-brown-cow-226-556897
title:
How now brown cow
text:
"How now brown cow" is a phrase used in elocution teaching to demonstrate the diphthong. English orthography also uses the homophonic spelling "ou" to represent this diphthong in words like "noun" and "cloud". Its use can be traced back to 1926. The phrase "how now" itself is an archaic greeting or interrogative expression.
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Phrase used in elocution
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_now_brown_cow
date created:
2005-06-10T14:15:03Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T20:53:17Z
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