I
take it you already know …
Of
tough
and bough
and cough
and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough,
thorough, laugh
and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard,
a dreadful word
That looks like beard
and sounds like bird.
And dead-it's
said like bed,
not bead.
For goodness sake, don't call it
deed!
Watch out for meat
and
great and
threat.
They rhyme with suite
and
straight and
debt.
A moth
is not a moth
in mother,
Nor both
in bother,
broth in
brother,
And
here is
not a match for there,
Nor dear
and
fear for
pear and
bear.
And then there's dose
and
rose and
lose--
Just look them up--and
goose and
choose.
And
cork and
work and
card and
ward.
And font
and front
and
word and
sword.
And
do and
go, then
thwart and
cart.
Come, come I’ve hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five!
-Anonymous
