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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Poetry</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/Poetry/Forum13.htm</link><description>Poets.. come one, come all.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3616.28671)</generator><item><title>Re: poem about pronunciation</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PoemAboutPronunciation/cqdrw/post.htm#247977</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:30:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:247977</guid><dc:creator>Dj Bueno</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PoemAboutPronunciation/cqdrw/post.htm#247977</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments13-247977.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Oggimator wrote:    Sometimes even just one word, can be differently heard. In southern England, there is a chance,      (an a as in l a rge) to see the coast of northern France.        (here too) For an american, there is no such chance,    (an a as in b a d) so he will have fly to France.             (too)      \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\       by me     
 hehe nice one..</description></item><item><title>Re: poem about pronunciation</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PoemAboutPronunciation/cqdrw/post.htm#247178</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:30:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:247178</guid><dc:creator>Oggimator</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PoemAboutPronunciation/cqdrw/post.htm#247178</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments13-247178.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>Sometimes even just one word, can be differently heard. In southern England, there is a chance,      (an a as in l a rge) to see the coast of northern France.        (here too) For an american, there is no such chance,    (an a as in b a d) so he will have fly to France.             (too)      \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\       by me</description></item><item><title>poem about pronunciation</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PoemAboutPronunciation/cqdrw/post.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:30:48 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:246525</guid><dc:creator>Sadeem</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/PoemAboutPronunciation/cqdrw/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments13-246525.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>poem about pronunciation 
 

 
 
   I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble but not you On hiccough, thorough, slough and through. Well done! And now you wish perhaps, To learn of less familiar traps? Beware 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 for meat and great and threat (they rhyme with suite and straight and debt).  A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth, or brother, And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then there's doze and rose and lose- Just look them up- and goose and choose, And cork and work and...</description></item></channel></rss>