英文诗歌：趣说英语发音--同形异音
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英文诗歌：趣说英语发音——同形异音
Our Strange Lingo
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.
Poems showing the
absurdities（荒谬）
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?
of English spelling.
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!
Phoney Phonetics.
One
reason why I cannot spell,
Although I learned
the rules quite well
Is that some words like
'coup' and 'through'
Sound just like 'threw'
and 'flue' and 'who';
When 'oo' is never
spelled the same,
The 'juice' becomes a
guessing game;
And then I ponder over
'though',
Is it spelled 'so', or 'throw', or
'bow',
I mean the 'bow' that sounds like
'plow',
And not the 'bow' that sounds like
'row' -
The 'row' that is pronounced like
'roe'.
I wonder, too, why 'rough' and 'tough',
That sound the same as 'gruff' and 'muff',
Are spelled like 'bough' and 'though', for
they
Are both pronounced a different way.
And why can't I spell 'trough' and
'cough'
The same as I do 'scoff' and 'golf'?
Why isn't 'drought' spelled just like
'route',
or 'doubt' or 'pout' or 'sauerkraut'?
When words all sound so much the same
To change the spelling seems a shame.
There is no sense - see sound like cents -
in making such a difference
Between the
sight and sound of words;
Each spelling rule
that undergirds
The way a word should look
will fail
And often prove to no avail
Because exceptions will negate
The
truth of what the rule may state;
So though I
try, I still despair
And moan and mutter
That I'm held up to ridicule
And made to
look like such a fool
WHY ENGLISH IS SO
HARD TO LEARN
We must polish the Polish
furniture.
He could lead if he would get the
lead out.
The farm was used to produce
produce.
The dump was so full that it had to
refuse more refuse.
The soldier decided to
desert in the desert.
This was a good time to
present the present.
A bass was painted on the
head of the bass drum.
When shot at, the dove
dove into the bushes.
I did not object to
the object.
The insurance was invalid for the
invalid.
The bandage was wound around the
wound.
There was a row among the oarsmen about
how to row.
They were too close to the door to
close it.
The buck does funny things when the
does are present.
They sent a sewer
down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.
To
help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to
sow.
The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
After a number of injections my jaw got
number.
Upon seeing the tear in my clothes I
shed a tear.
I had to subject the subject to a
series of tests.
How can I intimate this to my
most intimate friend?
I read it once and will
read it agen
I learned much from this learned
treatise.
I was content to note the content of
the message.
The Blessed Virgin blessed her.
Blessed her richly.
It's a bit wicked to over-
trim a short wicked candle.
If he will
absent himself we mark him absent.
I incline
toward bypassing the incline.
CANDIDATE
FOR A PULLET SURPRISE
I have a spelling
checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee
marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot
sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your
sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in
it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew
lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles
two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye
trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours
o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're
lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too
wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their
are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye
am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase
me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay
purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's
fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite
a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And
wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's
are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye
dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy
righting want too pleas.
Eye halve a
spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques for my revue
Miss
steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key
and type a word
And weight four it to 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
It's rare lea ever
wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
Eye am shore your pleased two no
It's
letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled
me sew.
Eye Rhymes
Bear and dear
Share, I fear
The pointless deceptivness
Of there and here.
Some and home
Tomb and comb,
Sin against the tongue
Like from and whom.
Howl and bowl
Foul and soul,
Mislead the ear
Like
doll and toll.
Give and dive
Live and
thrive,
Bewilder the moppet
Of six or
five.
Love and hove
Dove and strove
Sound no more alike
Than glove and cove.
Pew and sew
Do and go
Fail
expectation
Like now and slow.
Laid and said
Must be read
As
if they rhymed
With neighed and Ned.
I beg your pardon?
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