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Why
is Spelling Difficult? 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 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! Author
Unknown
(Lough
is an Irish-English form of the Old Irish word loch, which means lake, or bay) |
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