2021-08-28

English spelling - some hurdles for new learners

FB posting of poems that embody the wacky spelling of our shared language, with preface by young person with Dysgraphia - writing/spelling difficulties,

Open poem lines:

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through.
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps,
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
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