livingart Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted August 11, 2012 Report Share Posted August 11, 2012 I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, lough 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 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 and thwart and cart - Come, come, I've hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive! I'd mastered it when I was five! Or... When the English tongue we speak. Why is break not rhymed with freak? Will you tell me why it's true We say sew but likewise few? And the maker of the verse, Cannot rhyme his horse with worse? Beard is not the same as heard Cord is different from word. Cow is cow but low is low Shoe is never rhymed with foe. Think of hose, dose,and lose And think of goose and yet with choose Think of comb, tomb and bomb, Doll and roll or home and some. Since pay is rhymed with say Why not paid with said I pray? Think of blood, food and good. Mould is not pronounced like could. Wherefore done, but gone and lone - Is there any reason known? To sum up all, it seems to me Sound and letters don't agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted August 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 :thup: :slfg: i had a rare steak off the rear of a rare animal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony law Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 :sml2: :sml2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li@m Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 :gigl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepsnana Posted August 12, 2012 Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Food. Such an interesting word. Food. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted August 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2012 Food. Such an interesting word. Food. covers a multitude of sins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted September 17, 2012 Report Share Posted September 17, 2012 mmmmmmmmmm FOOOOOOD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purplex Posted September 23, 2012 Report Share Posted September 23, 2012 I love how in 6 posts you guys can go from talking about how silly the English language is to food... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted September 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2012 bah bee queue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted September 23, 2012 Report Share Posted September 23, 2012 I wish I had some dough to buy the dough or bread to buy some bread and it was sweet of you to give me a sweet to eat on the suit by the way. Bye for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camtang Posted September 23, 2012 Report Share Posted September 23, 2012 :thup: :slfg: i had a rare steak off the rear of a rare animal mmmmmmm :love: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim r Posted September 24, 2012 Report Share Posted September 24, 2012 I put a rare stake on a horse and it came last, I went hoarse shouting at it, bet you can guess what I wanted to do with the stake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caper Posted October 6, 2012 Report Share Posted October 6, 2012 :sml1: :sml1: :sml1: Caper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aotealotl Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 can a thai tie a tie ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted October 7, 2012 Report Share Posted October 7, 2012 the definition of extacy its a feeling you feel when you feel you're about to feel a feeling you feel you have never felt before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Li@m Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 the definition of extacy its a feeling you feel when you feel you're about to feel a feeling you feel you have never felt before :sml1: :slfg: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livingart Posted October 16, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Ode to the Spell Checker Eye have a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no It's letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 perfect :sml1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheepsnana Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 Miss steaks eye kin knot sea she's not that hot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#!CrunchBang Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 This should be renamed dyslexic torture, It has taken me years to learn these bloody homophones. I have: there, they're, their hair, here, hare your, you're and many others sorted out. Now having to work on its and it's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 don't worry, most english speakers can't speak english properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disgustipated Posted October 16, 2012 Report Share Posted October 16, 2012 buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F15hguy Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 bison????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anthony law Posted October 17, 2012 Report Share Posted October 17, 2012 steak !drool: !drool: !drool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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