General Chat

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 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 is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear
And then there's dose and nose and lose
Just look them up - and goose and choose.

And cork and work and cord and word
And font and front and ward and sword
And do and go and thwart and cart
Come, come, we've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man Alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!

Soooo glad I don't have to learn English as a second language!!!

I mistakenly said to my German friends, that it is easier to learn English than German.......because we do not have the genders......der, die, das......masculine feminine, neuter before a noun, we only have 'the'......

.....and then they told me about all the sounds, just have you have done Stephanie........I kept my mouth shut after that.....

sally x

we have
train train
can can
dear dear
type type
let let
nails nails
mean mean
post post
lot lot
deal deal
pine pine
bow bow
same spelling different meaning