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I also like "soughing" -- He listened to the wind soughing through the trees. (Some pronounce it "suff" but I believe it's original pronunciation is "sow." I guess it works best while reading silently to oneself.

We could say that soughing is a product of psithurism. Neither is especially onomatopoetic.

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In Britain - soffing. There are some other words like that I think. Then there is a slough and to slough. A slew that we sloff off.

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The тАЬsowтАЭ pronunciation is clearly preferable since we can then have soughs through boughs ЁЯШК

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Valid point poet^^

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