LESSON 100 - OUR CRAZY LANGUAGE

THIS VIDEO IS VERY INTERESTING.

IT IS ABOUT THE SAME TOPIC WE STUDIED IN

LESSON 100 - OUR CRAZY LANGUAGE.

WHY SOME WORDS DO NOT RHYME WITH OTHERS SPECIALLY WHEN

THE SPELLINGS LOOK PRETTY MUCH THE SAME?

THE ANSWER IS: SOUNDS AND LETTERS DON'T AGREE!

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When the English tongue we speak

Why is break (quebrar) not rhymed with weak (fraco)?

Won’t you tell me why it’s true

We say sew (costurar), but also few (poucos)?

And the maker of a verse

Cannot rhyme his horse (cavalo)

with worse (pior)?

Beard (barba) sounds not the

same as heard (ouviu),

Cord (cordão) is different from

word (palavra),
Cow (vaca) is cow, low (baixo) is low,

Shoe (sapato) is never rhymed with foe (inimigo).

Think of hose (mangueira) and dose (dose)

and lose (perder),

And think of goose (ganso)

and yet of choose (escolher),

Think of comb (pente) and

tomb (túmulo) and bomb (bomba),

Doll (boneca) and roll (rolar) and

home (casa) and some (alguns).

And since pay (pagar) is rhymed with say (dizer),

Why not paid (pagou) with said (disse),

I pray? Think of blood (sangue)

and food (comida) and good (bom);

Mould (molde) is not

pronounced like could (poderia).

Why is done (feito), but gone (ido)

and lone (solitário)

-Is there any reason known?

To sum it up, it seems to me

Sounds and letters don’t agree.