I take it you already know of tough and bough and cough and dough. Some may
stumble, but not you, on hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
So now are you ready, perhaps, to learn of less familiar traps?
*Beware of heard, a dreadful word, that looks like beard, but 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, then thwart and cart, come, come! I’ve hardly made a start.
[Author Unknown]
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Dr Bob Griffin
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“Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!”