Page 12 - Frittenden Parish Mag - April 2024

Trivia

English I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
as she is Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish perhaps
spoke To know of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
Mike Cooper That looks like beard, and sounds like bird.
And dead, it’s said like bed not bead,
For goodness sakes, 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 as 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 rose and close 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!
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