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Dec 08, 2008 20:59

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 beadFor goodness sake ( Read more... )

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wordbox December 10 2008, 01:16:08 UTC
Love it! I'm going to print this out and bring it to work (I provide additional literacy support to elementary school students). At a training we went to, we got a handout with something similar, except it was about words that are spelled the same but are pronounced differently (like how you wind a clock but the wind blew you over). Makes you wonder how we ever figured it out!

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beatlescowgirl December 11 2008, 06:56:58 UTC
Seriously, I look at these and go "well, of course I know them...but how did I ever get to this point!" Ahh, language is mind-boggling.

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