英文诗歌趣说英语发音同形异音.docx

1、英文诗歌趣说英语发音同形异音英文诗歌：趣说英语发音同形异音Our Strange Lingo(Written by Lord Cromer, extracts were quoted.)When the English tongue we speak.Why is break not rhymed with freak?Will you tell me why its trueWe say sew but likewise few?And the maker of the verse,Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?Beard is not the same

2、 as heardCord is different from word.Cow is cow but low is lowShoe is never rhymed with foe.Think of hose, dose,and loseAnd think of goose and yet with chooseThink of comb, tomb and bomb,Doll and roll or home and some.Since pay is rhymed with sayWhy not paid with said I pray?Think of blood, food and

3、 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 meSound and letters dont agree.Poems showing the absurdities（荒谬） of English spelling.I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble, b

4、ut 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 wordThat looks like beard and sounds like bird,And dead: its said like bed, not bead -For goodness sake dont call it deed!Watch out for meat and great

5、and threat(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).A moth is not a moth in mother,Nor both in bother, broth in brother,And here is not a match for thereNor dear and fear for bear and pear,And then theres dose and rose and lose -Just look them up - and goose and choose,And cork and work and card

6、 and ward,And font and front and word and sword,And do and go and thwart and cart -Come, come, Ive hardly made a start!A dreadful language? Man alive!Id mastered it when I was five!Phoney Phonetics.One reason why I cannot spell,Although I learned the rules quite wellIs that some words like coup and

7、throughSound just like threw and flue and who;When oo is never spelled the same,The juice becomes a guessing game;And then I ponder over though,Is it spelled so, or throw, or bow,I mean the bow that sounds like plow,And not the bow that sounds like row -The row that is pronounced like roe.I wonder,

8、too, why rough and tough,That sound the same as gruff and muff,Are spelled like bough and though, for theyAre both pronounced a different way.And why cant I spell trough and coughThe same as I do scoff and golf?Why isnt drought spelled just like route,or doubt or pout or sauerkraut?When words all so

9、und so much the sameTo change the spelling seems a shame.There is no sense - see sound like cents -in making such a differenceBetween the sight and sound of words;Each spelling rule that undergirdsThe way a word should look will failAnd often prove to no availBecause exceptions will negateThe truth

10、of what the rule may state;So though I try, I still despairAnd moan and mutter Its not fairThat Im held up to ridiculeAnd made to look like such a fool.WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD TO LEARNWe must polish the Polish furniture.He could lead if he would get the lead out.The farm was used to produce produce.T

11、he dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.The soldier decided to desert in the desert.This was a good time to present the present.A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.I did not object to the object.The insurance was invalid for the i

12、nvalid.The bandage was wound around the wound.There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.They were too close to the door to close it.The buck does funny things when the does are present.They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.To help with planting, the farmer taught his s

13、ow to sow.The wind was too strong to wind the sail.After a number of injections my jaw got number.Upon seeing the tear in my clothes I shed a tear.I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?I read it once and will read it agenI learned much f

14、rom this learned treatise.I was content to note the content of the message.The Blessed Virgin blessed her. Blessed her richly.Its a bit wicked to over-trim a short wicked candle.If he will absent himself we mark him absent.I incline toward bypassing the incline.CANDIDATE FOR A PULLET SURPRISE I have

15、 a spelling checker,It came with my PC.It plane lee marks four my revueMiss steaks aye can knot sea.Eye ran this poem threw it,Your sure reel glad two no.Its vary polished in its weigh.My checker tolled me sew.A checker is a bless sing,It freeze yew lodes of thyme.It helps me right awl stiles two re

16、ed,And aides me when eye rime.Each frays come posed up on my screenEye trussed too bee a joule.The checker pours oer every wordTo cheque sum spelling rule.Bee fore a veiling checkersHour spelling mite decline,And if were lacks oar have a laps,We wood bee maid too wine.Butt now bee cause my spellingI

17、s checked with such grate flare,Their are know faults with in my cite,Of nun eye am a wear.Now spelling does knot phase me,It does knot bring a tier.My pay purrs awl due glad denWith wrapped words fare as hear.To rite with care is quite a feetOf witch won should bee proud,And wee mussed dew the best

18、 wee can,Sew flaws are knot aloud.Sow ewe can sea why aye dew praysSuch soft wear four pea seas,And why eye brake in two averseBuy righting want too pleas.Eye halve a spelling checkerIt came with my pea seaIt plainly marques for my revueMiss steaks eye kin knot sea.Eye strike a key and type a wordAn

19、d weight four it to sayWeather eye am wrong oar writeIt shows me strait a weigh.As soon as a mist ache is maidIt nose bee fore two longAnd eye can put the error riteIts rare lea ever wrong.Eye have run this poem threw itEye am shore your pleased two noIts letter perfect awl the weighMy checker tolle

20、d me sew.Eye Rhymes, by Helen BowyerBear and dearShare, I fearThe pointless deceptivnessOf there and here.Some and homeTomb and comb,Sin against the tongueLike from and whom.Howl and bowlFoul and soul,Mislead the earLike doll and toll.Give and diveLive and thrive,Bewilder the moppetOf six or five.Lo

21、ve and hoveDove and stroveSound no more alikeThan glove and cove.Pew and sewDo and goFail expectationLike now and slow.Laid and saidMust be readAs if they rhymedWith neighed and Ned.I beg your pardon?I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble, but not you,On

22、hiccough, thorough, lough and through?Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,To learn of less familiar traps?Beware of heard, a dreadful wordThat looks like beard and sounds like bird,And dead: its said like bed, not bead -For goodness sake dont call it deed!Watch out for meat and great and threat(The

23、y rhyme with suite and straight and debt).A moth is not a moth in mother,Nor both in bother, broth in brother,And here is not a match for thereNor dear and fear for bear and pear,And then theres dose and rose and lose -Just look them up - and goose and choose,And cork and work and card and ward,And font and front and word and sword,And do and go and thwart and cart -Come, come, Ive hardly made a start!A dreadful language? Man alive!Id mastered it when I was