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1. Considering the pronunciation of laugh, women, and nation, how would you pronounce
GHO1|
?
2. Considering the pronunciation of omas (or thyme), weigh, school, glamour, and handsome (or
handkerchief ), what English word might be spelled
1HL|GHCHOUND
?
3. Considering the pronunciation of said, pneumonia, of, action, belle, dough, and shepherd, what
English word might be spelled
A|N|OLLLOUGHH
?
e poem below is full of sound/symbol surprises in English.
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Some falter, (but I think not you)
On hiccough, thorough, tough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
at looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; Its said like bed not bead
For goodness sake, dont call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
ey rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not the 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 theres dose and rose and lose;
Just look these up, with goose and choose.
Now, 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, Ive hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Sakes alive!
Id mastered it when I was ve!
Anonymous