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.
Well done! And now yow 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, broth in brother,
And here id not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there�s does and rose 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, thwart and cart �
Come, come, I�ve hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I�d mastered it when I was five!

(From a letter published in the Sunday Times, January 3, 1965.)

The boys' arrows were almost gone so they sat down on the grass and stopped hunting. Over at the edge of the wood they saw Henry making a bow to a small girl who was coming down the road. She had tears in her eyes and tears in her dress. She gave Henry a note which he brought over to the group of young hunters. Read to the boys, it caused great excitement. After a minute, but rapid examination of there weapons they ran down the vally. Does were standing there at the lake, making an excellent target.

ghoti

Gh as in tough spells F
O as in women is I
and ti as in station: SH

Ghoti is fish

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