God help the English Learner...

[1monster]

[1monster]

1. Further illustrated:

[immoderate]

2. Sometimes I get behind a tanker truck that says "Clough."

What do you call these?

--imm

[1monster]

3. You got me -- unless it is some person's family name...

In that case, there was a guy who wrote a college text on the history of the western world who spelled his name that way. The professor always referred to him as Clog with the "o" pronounced as the "o" in "flow".

But your guess is as good as mine.

[DFW]

4. What's in a name?

Ponder the situation of this family business in Germany:

http://www.fuecker-busreisen.de/das-unternehmen.html

And it's CEO: Heinz Günter Fücker

[mwooldri]

6. Or the Austrian town of Fucking.

Or the other languages that have words when read in English have a very different meaning.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. Park on a driveway, drive on a parkway. nt