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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Dec-07 - 09:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: howjasay- phonetic pronunciation w/sound
Subject: RE: BS: howjasay- phonetic pronunciation w/sound
Bogle pronounced bow-gle, Scottish for goblin, ghost or phantom; in print in 1500. The OED says its use by Walter Scott, Burns, etc., has introduced it into English usage. Also seen as bogy or boggle. Included in Webster's Intercollegiate Dictionary.

The OED has contro'versy.The reason is that the word is borrowed from the French, controversie.

The site is interesting, but there is no way that it could cover all of the words in the Oxford English Dictionary (some 20 volumes, but also available in a reduced size edition which requires a lens to read). The 1991 micrographic edition on sale at Amazon for $251.97.
The cd-rom version $230. It has good coverage of Scottish, etc.