Spelling poem

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Quiet Storm

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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!
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A question: from your location, would I be correct in assuming that English is a second language for you?
 
American English got you down? :D

Threw hard studease, U 2 will be able to spek and right good two......

:D :D :D
 
Good one (s).

That poem reminds me of the old joke from when I was a kid in grammer school.

Our teacher asked us to go home and find the longest word in the dictionary and tell the class the next day. She was very clever because we all mulled over the dictionary and learned very well how it worked. When we came back to school the next day we compared all our long words. Of course it was a trick question.

She said the longest word in the dictionary was "Smiles"! We argued loudly that that was just plain wrong. Nope she said, it is the longest. When we finally asked her how she could be so stupid as to come up with "Smiles" as the longest word in the dictionary she replied, "Well it is! See! There is a mile between the "S's".

Her name was Mrs. Jane Anderson, great teacher.

Now if I could just learn to spell niffe, knif, nivse, blad, stel, etc.

And folks from Germany shouldn't make fun of English. They make one word into a whole sentence over there. And what are all these "Fart's" (Ausfart) doing along side the autobahn anyway? Gutten tag!
 
Guten Tag! :)

If spelling is too difficult for you, use one of these: SpelCheckr 1.0

Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lea 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 err or rite,
Its rare lea eve err wrong.

Eye halve rune this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased two no
Its let her prefect awl the weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.
 
Esav Benyamin said:
Guten Tag! :)

If spelling is too difficult for you, use one of these: SpelCheckr 1.0

Eye halve a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lea 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 err or rite,
Its rare lea eve err wrong.

Eye halve rune this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased two no
Its let her prefect awl the weigh.
My chequer tolled me sew.
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Seems I had some problems.

Eye red year poem and had too laugh
Fore eye half a check or two
It tolled me ewe can’t spill marc
Or check or with a cue

Aye cud ant fig year out why
Then yore tie till tolled me sew
Seams aye cop peed this to Word
And used Spelchekcr too poem toe


Free king in come pat able soft where op grayed............:mad:




:D
Jaw-VA
 
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