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    The document discusses some of the inconsistencies in English pronunciation compared to spelling. It presents a poem that highlights examples of words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently, such as "break" and "weak", "sew" and "few", "horse" and "worse". The poem explores rhyming patterns and shows that English pronunciation does not always follow predictable spelling rules. In the end, it concludes that the sounds and letters in English often do not agree with each other.

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    The document discusses some of the inconsistencies in English pronunciation compared to spelling. It presents a poem that highlights examples of words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently, such as "break" and "weak", "sew" and "few", "horse" and "worse". The poem explores rhyming patterns and shows that English pronunciation does not always follow predictable spelling rules. In the end, it concludes that the sounds and letters in English often do not agree with each other.

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    The document discusses some of the inconsistencies in English pronunciation compared to spelling. It presents a poem that highlights examples of words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently, such as "break" and "weak", "sew" and "few", "horse" and "worse". The poem explores rhyming patterns and shows that English pronunciation does not always follow predictable spelling rules. In the end, it concludes that the sounds and letters in English often do not agree with each other.

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    English Pronunciation

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    English Pronunciation

    In English, the same sound, especially vowel sounds, can be spelt in many different
    ways.

    Read the following poem in pairs. Pay particular attention to the pronunciation of the
    words in italics.

    Now, listen to the poem and check your pronunciation.

    When the English tongue we speak


    Why is break not rhymed with weak?
    Won’t you tell me why it’s true
    We say sew, but also few?
    And the maker of a verse
    Cannot rhyme his horse with worse?
    Beard is not the same as heard,
    Cord is different from word,
    Cow is cow, but low is low,
    Shoe is never rhymed with foe.
    Think of hose and dose and lose,
    And think of goose and yet of choose,
    Think of comb and tomb and bomb,
    Doll and roll and home and some,
    And since pay is rhymed with say,
    Why not paid with said I pray?
    Think of blood and food and good;
    Mould is not pronounced like could.
    Why is it done, but gone and lone –
    Is there any reason known?
    To sum it up, it seems to me
    That sounds and letters don’t agree.

    Taken from: Headway Upper Intermediate, Oxford University Press, p. 34

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