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Re: [Graffito] Something to smile about

Hi,
I just found online the audio version of the poem below (sent to the list by
Maria in 2002)

http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/poem01.html

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Pronunciation

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 does 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 -
And yet I've hardly made a start!

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Wed Jul 13, 2005 7:28 pm

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I wonder about the price of the wife when he will have heard it all... no need for the wife then but at which price? That is the question :-)))) I guess it is...
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... From: maria31840 < ... I stumble on that one. Aren't both "u:"s ? "regular" OOs ? Claire I don't know everything and yet my boyfriend calls me "memory...
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Apr 12, 2002
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... From: maria31840 ... Does ^= Rose ^= lose ( ^= stands for "different") while lose = goose (*) = choose The whole text or poem is based on pairs, or bigger...
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Apr 14, 2002
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... wrong... ... sound, ... I think your boyfriend is right. You should be called "Extended Memory". I did not think that far..I just concentrated on the...
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Apr 14, 2002
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Hi, I just found online the audio version of the poem below (sent to the list by Maria in 2002) http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/poem01.html ... ...
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