The English Langauge is clear enough

Despite bough and cough and dough and tough

Mistakes are possible, it’s true

With hiccough, thorough, lough and through.

Beware of heard – a tricky word

That looks like beard but sounds like bird

And dead – it’s said like bed not bead

It’s wrong to pronounce a fellow ‘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 rhyme for there

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear

There’s always dose and rose and lose

Look those up with goose and choose

And cork with work and card with ward

Or font with front and word with sword

And do and go or thwart and cart~

Speaking English is an art

With all these traps in which to fall

It’s a wonder we can speak at all.

Author unknown