*Very* OT pronunciation help, please!

[geoff_bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" <susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
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> Hello, from a too-long lurker.
> 
> When my family & I visited England earlier this spring, being the big soccer/football fans that we are, we knew we wanted to see a match whilst there.  So we went to a Derby County FC match and promptly fell in love with the team (and I in love with Robbie Savage ;)).
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> So here's my pronunciation question, re: former DCFC manager Brian Clough and current DCFC manager, his son, Nigel Clough.  How the heck does one properly pronounce CLOUGH?
> 
> Does it rhyme with rough?
> Does it rhyme with clock?
> Does it sound like clog?
> Does it rhyme with slow?
> 
> Help, please!  

Geoff:
You should ask your tame English friend... :-)

It's Cluff... i.e. rhyming with rough.

Any surname like that is usually the same: Barraclough, Brough.

PS I think Derby played my old home town side Burnley didn't they? 
You'll be interested to know that they gained promotion to the 
Premier Division this season (first time for 33 years) and in their 
first match beat Man United!!