Read the poem and complete the table: Which of the words in the poem are represented by the phonetic transcription on the left?
Listen to the poem:
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, lough 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).
from Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners
| pronunciation | spelling |
| hiccough (also: hiccup) | |
| lough (also: loch) | |
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