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    This poem highlights some of the irregularities and inconsistencies in the English language by presenting pairs of words that demonstrate different pronunciations of similar spelling patterns (e.g. bough and cough). Over three stanzas, groups of children recite examples like moth/mother, both/brother/bother that show how sounds can vary depending on context. The poem concludes that English is a "dreadful language" that the children had managed to master by the age of five despite its irregularities.

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    This poem highlights some of the irregularities and inconsistencies in the English language by presenting pairs of words that demonstrate different pronunciations of similar spelling patterns (e.g. bough and cough). Over three stanzas, groups of children recite examples like moth/mother, both/brother/bother that show how sounds can vary depending on context. The poem concludes that English is a "dreadful language" that the children had managed to master by the age of five despite its irregularities.

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    This poem highlights some of the irregularities and inconsistencies in the English language by presenting pairs of words that demonstrate different pronunciations of similar spelling patterns (e.g. bough and cough). Over three stanzas, groups of children recite examples like moth/mother, both/brother/bother that show how sounds can vary depending on context. The poem concludes that English is a "dreadful language" that the children had managed to master by the age of five despite its irregularities.

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    English

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    Bryan Cavico
    This poem highlights some of the irregularities and inconsistencies in the English language by presenting pairs of words that demonstrate different pronunciations of similar spelling patterns (e.g. bough and cough). Over three stanzas, groups of children recite examples like moth/mother, both/brother/bother that show how sounds can vary depending on context. The poem concludes that English is a "dreadful language" that the children had managed to master by the age of five despite its irregularities.

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    ENGLISH: A QUEER LANGUAGE

    ALL: I think you already know

    GIRLS BOYS

    Of tough and bough //////and cough and dough

    ALL: Others may stumble, but not you

    GIRLS: A moth is not a moth in mother.

    BOYS: Nor both in brother or in bother.

    ALL: And here is not a match for there.

    BOYS GIRLS

    Nor dear and fear/////for bear and plan.

    ALL: And there’s dose and rose and lose.

    ALL: Just look them up-and goose and choose.

    RIGHT LEFT

    And cork and work ////and card and ward-

    GIRLS: And font and front and word and ward.

    BOYS: And do and go and thwart and cart-

    ALL: Come, come I’ve hardly met a start!

    GIRLS BOYS

    A dreadful language! ///// Man alive!

    ALL: I’d mastered it when I was five.

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