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English Pronunciation Poem

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  • I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough.
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  • Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, lough and through.
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  • Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
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  • And dead – it’s said like bed, not bead. For goodness sake, don’t call it deed!
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  • Watch out for meat and great and threat. They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
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  • A moth is not a moth in mother, nor both in bother, broth in brother.
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  • And here is not a match for there, nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
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  • And then there’s dose and rose and lose. Just look them up — and goose and choose.
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  • And cork and work and card and ward. And font and front and word and sword.
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  • And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come I’ve hardly made a start.
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