Way OT: Phrases you Hate 941No, really, people want to know where's he at ... not in his head, in his physical location. I must be living under a rock, I think I first heard butthat...
Rather more simple than it is, I guess.
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Way OT: Phrases you Hate 940Dave Smith I like this one. It has nothing to do with making sense or not making sense. It has a nice regional twang about it. It doesn't refer to placement as "where...
I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, slough, 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, And 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, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Why, man alive, I'd learned to talk it when I was five. And yet to read it, the more I tried, I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.
Author unknown.
From Beacons, (an elementary school reading book), Houghton Mifflin Company --
