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Joy Ride Reading Owl

 

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough thorough, tough, and through.

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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 head --
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 lot and word and sword,

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And do and go and overt and cart--
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five.
And yet to write it, the more I tried.
I hadn't learned at fifty five.

 


 


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