Tough Stuff

Blood and flood are not like food,

Nor is mould like should and would,

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,

Doll and roll and some and home.

 

Stranger doesn’t rhyme with anger,

Danger doesn’t rhyme with hanger,

Shoes, goes, does – now say finger,

Now say ginger, now say singer.

 

Query doesn’t rhyme with very,

Nor does fury sound like bury

Ear and fear both rhyme with here,

But wear and tear both rhyme with there!

 

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

And be careful how you speak

Say break and steak, but bleak and streak.

 

Heaven, seven, eleven, even,

But which of them rhymes with Stephen?

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.

But write and right, seen and scene.

 

Thought and taught and sort an sought

And through and plough and dough and cough

Do any of them rhyme with enough?

English is really tough stuff!

 

 

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