Sunday, October 5, 2008

Random But VERY Interesting Poem I Found...

So this is a very random post but I read it and enjoyed it very much. This is for your reading pleasure!

Pronunciation Poem

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 --
and 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 the 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.

1 comment:

Steph K said...

I love this!!!

It reminds me of "phonics class" in first and second grade and all the questions we would ask about why the "rules of grammar" don't always help you figure out how to pronouce and spell things.

Just when you think you had a rule all figured out, something came along like tear (teer) and tear (tare) or dead and bead. Interesting.