truus' blog

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

Pfffff, as a second language for me,
no wonder kids think I talk funny.