English Phonetics - I take it you already know | Текст песни

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• I take it you already know

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough 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-
Misleading, isn't it indeed!
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, or brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and said and paid -
Just wait, the list has not been made.
A dreadful language? Every bit!
So what's the use of learning it?
Don't be afraid, you will survive.
I spoke it at the age of five.