English

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble but not you

On hiccough, though, slough and through.

Well done! And now you may wish perhaps

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead is 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, nor broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there

Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.

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.

A dreadful language? Why man alive

I could speak it when I was five!