Yeah, I’m pretty sure it rhymes with NO, as in, “No, this black car will be rather difficult to miss. And by the way: the gentleman is usually in quite a rush.”
See, as the Burton and Schumacher movies came out and were promoted on assorted entertainment shows, morning shows, talk shows, Siskel and Ebert (aka Critic’s Cat Fight) and the like, whenever Michael Gough’s name came up (“Back again as Alfred is Michael Gough.” for example) it was always pronounced similar to “cough”.
Its rather intriguing how a surname so seemingly simple in appearance can produce a variety of pronunciations.
We’d best throw the breakfast to the dogs and cancel the pizzas before this matter is solved.
I dunno Misfit…you mean to say Entertainment Tonight’s Bob Goens and Leeza Gibbons got it wrong when talking about Batman Returns in the lead-up to the movie’s theatrical release?
That Robert Urich, host of the below TV special (which I watched with rapt attention when it aired) got it wrong too? Spooner couldn’t have done that. Spenser wouldn’t have and as we know, he was for hire (along with Benjamin Sisko).
I’d lay decent money it, it rhymes with cough. The proper English pronunciation rhymes with cough. See the pronunciation of Gough Island. That is pronounced as rhyming with cough.
You’ve caused quite a Goughing fit, Vroom. Take a Gough. Must’ve been a Gough time for the rest of you to Gough hunt down the correct pronunciation. Those seem to be the major candidates, but WildDog is kind of going Gough on us.