English Language
Study, styudy, study... All I ever seem to do!
Right now I'm studying for my language exam on Friday by reading one of my coursebooks:
The Study of Language by George Yule.
Here comes a quote:
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough abd cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, lough 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 --
For godness sake don't catt it 'deed'!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhime with suite and straight and debt).
T.S.W quoted in Mackay (1970)
//M.
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