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= Pronunciation: Fun Poem =
Rodney Tan Chai Whatt<br>
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I take it you already know<br>
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?<br>
Others may stumble, but not you<br>
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.<br>
Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,<br>
To learn of less familiar traps.<br>
Beware of heard, a dreadful word<br>
That looks like beard but sounds like bird.<br>
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,<br>
<br>
For goodness sake don't call it deed!<br>
Watch out for meat and great and threat<br>
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).<br>
A moth is not a moth as in mother<br>
Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,<br>
And here is not a match for there,<br>
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.<br>
And then there's dose and rose and lose--<br>
Just look them up--and goose and choose<br>
And cork and work and card and ward<br>
And font and front and word and sword<br>
And do and go, then thwart and cart,<br>
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.<br>
A dreadful Language? Why man alive!<br>
I learned to talk it when I was five.<br>
And yet to write it, the more I tried,<br>
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.<br>