Spelling, grammar and----Pronunciation.
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:08 am
Just a little aside, changing from spelling to pronunciation, a little ditty that I used to use when I was teaching English to French kids, hope that it hits the tickle button:-
CORK and WORK and CARD and WARD !
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.
I write, in case 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, nor broth in brother.
Here is not a match for there, nor dear for bear, or fear for pear.
There’s dose and rose, goose and choose, and cork and work, card and ward,
font and front, word and sword, do and go and thwart and cart…………..
Come come, I’ve barely made a start!
A DREADFUL LANGUAGE?
Man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five!
Best Wishes
Pat
CORK and WORK and CARD and WARD !
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.
I write, in case 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, nor broth in brother.
Here is not a match for there, nor dear for bear, or fear for pear.
There’s dose and rose, goose and choose, and cork and work, card and ward,
font and front, word and sword, do and go and thwart and cart…………..
Come come, I’ve barely made a start!
A DREADFUL LANGUAGE?
Man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five!
Best Wishes
Pat
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