shrow

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That oo was not sounded like o long is certain from Webbe's saying, that, to make poore and doore rhyme with more, they must be written pore and dore. Mr. White says also that shrew was pronounced shrow, and cites as parallel cases sew and shew.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859