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Sounds and Letters Don't Agree by Lord Cromer 1902

When the English tongue we speak,

Why does break not rhyme 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 ryhmed with foe.

Think of hose and dose and lose,

And think of loose 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 up, it seems to me

That sounds and letters don't agree.