Someone sent this to me, knowing I love this kind of stuff, and I’ve decided to use it in next month’s AWC newsletter. If anyone tracks down the actual author, I’d be very grateful. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I take it you already know -Author Unknown<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Someone sent this to me, knowing I love this kind of stuff, and I’ve decided to use it in next month’s AWC newsletter. If anyone tracks down the actual author, I’d be very grateful. \ud83d\ude42 I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough Others may stumble, but not you, On hiccough, thorough, tough and through; Well done! And how you wish perhaps To learn of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead; it’s said like bed, not bead For goodness sake don’t call it “deed”. Watch out...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6637,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/6637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOf tough and bough and cough and dough
\nOthers may stumble, but not you,
\nOn hiccough, thorough, tough and through;
\nWell done! And how you wish perhaps
\nTo learn of heard, a dreadful word
\nThat looks like beard and sounds like bird.
\nAnd dead; it’s said like bed, not bead
\nFor goodness sake don’t call it “deed”.
\nWatch out for meat and great and threat
\n(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
\nA moth is not a moth in mother,
\nNor both in bother, broth in brother.
\nAnd here is not a match for there
\nNor dear and fear for bear and pear.
\nAnd then there’s dose and rose and lose
\nJust look them up and goose and choose,
\nAnd cork and work and word and sword,
\nAnd do and go and thwart and cart.
\nCome, come I’ve hardly made a start.
\nA dreadful language? Man alive
\nI mastered it when I was five.<\/font><\/p>\n