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In 17th century England, Thorough was a name given by Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford to a scheme of his to establish absolute monarchy in England. Although "Thorough" is largely attributed to Strafford, its implementation can also be accredited to the Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud .
borough, Poughkeepsie, thorough, Willoughby, yarborough Pronounced / oʊ / when at the end of a word in American English (borough and thorough thus rhyme with burrow and furrow), but reduced to / ə / when followed by another syllable in many dialects (such as in thoroughly). / ʌ p /, / ə p / hiccough Variant spelling of the more common ...
Thorough (policy) of Laud and Wentworth in England and Ireland in the 1630s; Thorough Guides, late-Victorian travel guides; HMS Thorough, British submarine 1942–62; Thorough-bass, a kind of musical notation in which numerals and symbols indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones, in relation to the bass note they are placed above or below.
Nonetheless, breeders of other species of purebred animals may use the two terms interchangeably, [11] though thoroughbred is less often used for describing purebred animals of other species. [10] [11] The term is a proper noun referring to this specific breed, [12] though often not capitalized, especially in non-specialist publications, and ...
There are many suffixes that can be used to create nouns. Huddleston (2002) provides a thorough list that is split into two main sections: person/instrument nominalizations and action/state/process nominalizations. An especially common case of verbs being used as nouns is the addition of the suffix -ing, known in English as a gerund.
Proper nouns are a class of words such as December, Canada, Leah, and Johnson that occur within noun phrases (NPs) that are proper names, [2] though not all proper names contain proper nouns (e.g., General Electric is a proper name with no proper noun).
Amos Bronson Alcott and Thoreau's aunt each wrote that "Thoreau" is pronounced like the word thorough (/ ˈ θ ʌr oʊ / THURR-oh—in General American, [9] [10] but more precisely / ˈ θ ɔːr oʊ / THOR-oh—in 19th-century New England).
Highways, public or private road or other public way on land; Roads, route or way on land between two places that has been paved or otherwise improved for travel; Bridle path, for equestrian use