PHONETIC FOOLISHNESS (TONGUE Wear but weary, heard but beard

TWISTER POEM) Dread but dreary, earned but eared

Bait is gait and strait but plaid
Leave out the “G” in gnaw and gnat
If you pronounce head, dead and bead
You’ll hear the last word rhyme with deed
Sward but sword and word but Lord
And in this “poem” you will find
Load and toad and road but broad
Many items of its kind
Cereal does not sound like seal
Real is not like zeal and heal
For instance:
Dear and fear and hear but bear
Mint but pint and cork but work
Gear and fear but wear and tear
Dull and gull and hull but full
Yeast and least and beast but pleasant
Lull and skull abut bull and pull
Beast but breast and pleased but peasant
Our flour, but tour and pour
Meant but peat and sweat but great
We say bone and lone but gone
The last word rhymes with freight and
Pronounce it like don and dawn
weight
Tone and scone and throne but done
Quite different again is height
Phone and home and scone but none
Which sounds like bike, indict and light
Now reader, always bear in mind
The next line should be read with care
The difference between wind and wind
The praying prayer says his prayer
The latter rhymes with bind and kind
Bean and lean and mean but meant
Heave, heath, heave, heathen heather
Note “g” in gem and gent
Breathe but breath and feather leather
Vice but crevice, advice and device
Lethal, nether, either, tether
Lice but malice, police concise
Giddy, give but gist and gin
We say dreamt but also dreamed
Bury is pronounced like berry
The latter rhyming with esteemed
“CH” is chaste and chore and chin
Grew and blew and new but sew
Quite different from “CH” in anchor
Cow and row but sow and row
Which rhymes like tanker and banker
Measles does not sound like measure
Chemist, chasm and choir
The same applies to treason – treasure
The last word is pronounced like quire
Braid and maid and laid but said
Tier and bier bur brier crier
Treat but threat and threat but tread
Couch and vouch but douche and touch
A prison is often called a jail
Butcher does not sound like crutch
Which word is also written as: gaol
Over has the spelling of lover
Now not the difference with goal
And of glove and dove and cover
Which rhymes with foal, and dole and roll
Hover is not pronounced as clever
Owl and jowl are not likely bowl
Which sounds like Dover, and like rover
Try foul then ghoul and lastly soul
Lever rhymes with fever but sever
We say freak and streak but steak
Sounds quite different however
Leak and freak and speak but break
Now have a shot at evil – devil
Meadow has the sound of “E”
Reveal and revel; on the level
Note: Lead and lead, read and read
Desert and dessert; some and home Minute differs from minute
Tomb and womb; bomb but comb The latter rhymes with cute and mute
Lie – alive – live – but – live Master-plaster-taster-waster
Gauze but gauge; believe and sieve Brocade and decade; bow and bow

Should is different form shoulder
The same applied to could and boulder
Bound but wound and rush but push
Lumber – plumber; crush but bush
Herring – erring; cloth but both
Eve but ewe; and froth – betroth
No “t” is heard in fasten – hasten
Which makes them rhyme with mason
First say danger, then say anger
Mind: the latter rhymes with clanger
Count but country; southern – south
Disguise but bruise; youth but mouth
The same applies to listen – soften
Nasty – hasty; faster – chaster
Hose but lose; canoe but woe
Can you pronounce without mistake?
MacLeod – quay – Rachel – ache
Petal – penal – want – pant – slant
Van – van rabues – grand and grant
I don’t blame you if you cant
Worm but form and doll but toll
Horse but worse and lost but post
Cost and frost but most and ghost
Lout, pout quote and route but route
Make it rhymes with shoot and fruit
Enough but hiccough; plough but trough
Cough but though and lastly through
All seven different you know!
Then try: schism, schedule, scheme
Trample differs from ram
Meander equally the same with mean
And cleanse is not pronounced as clean
Mayor but major; down but own
Friend but fiend; and crown but grown
Previous-precious-daughter-draughty
Leaf but deaf and front but won’t
Do you know anything so crafty?
As those puzzles I bet you don’t
Golf but wolf; chance but change
Raffle-staff; it does not sound strange!
Toe, foe, doe and hoe but shoe
Dag, dub, hug but huge and Hugh
There are many more but these will so

Calm and valve and ball but pal

Tall but tally; gall and gal
Star and bar and par but war
I wonder if you want some more

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Heinous-feign-weird-veil-conceited
Sheik-sleigh-sleight-skein-sweated-seated
Debate-ate-senate. Can you beat it?

Aunt is not like vaunt and gaunt

Not like vaunt and taunt and haunt
Brook but brooch and brood but blood
Hood but mood and food but flood