5. Proverbs, idiomatic expressions.
Boys
will be boys.
There's
no joy without alloy [
].
Roy
refused point-blank.
The
voice of one man is the voice of no one.
Joys
shared with others are more enjoyed.
Choice
of the end covers the choice of means.
[au]
1. Spelling.
-ou-
loud, out, bound;
-ow-
cow, town, how;
-ough-
bough, plough, drought.
2. Monosyllabic
words.
Owl,
foul, howl, yowl, fowl, mount, mound, pound, clown, drawn, crown,
town.
3. Polysyllabic
words.
a) Stressed
position: ‘outline,
'cowboy, 'mouthful, 'county, 'boundless, 'mountain, 'downtown,
account, amount, profound, compound, uncountable, overcrowded.
b) Unstressed
position: resthouse,
'playground, 'pronoun, 'underground, 'greyhound, fishpound,
viscount.
4. Geographical
names.
Bissau
[bi'sau], Bridgetown,
Capetown,
Laos [lauz], Southampton.
5. Proverbs,
sayings, idiomatic expressions.
Out
of sight, out of mind.
Now,
now, stop howling.
Out
of bounds.
Toiler's
out and about.
Lowrie's
down in the mouth.
What
are you looking so down in the mouth about?
That
hat suits you down to the ground.
From
mouth to mouth.
Burn
not your house to rid of
the mouse.
In
a roundabout way.