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- I take it you already know
- Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
- Others may stumble, but not you,
- On hiccough, thorough, lough 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 bear and pear,
- 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 and thwart and cart -
- Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
- A dreadful language? Man alive!
- I'd mastered it when I was five!
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