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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419362" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Spelling</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'm fascinated by the way<br>Our language comes unstuck, <br>When all the rules of spelling<br>Look as though they've run amok.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You wouldn't BOUGH to an audience, <br>Or swing from the BOW of a tree; <br>No wonder it's hard for foreigners: <br>It's hard for you and me! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When looking for admittance<br>We don't K-nock on doors; <br>We knock, the K is silent, <br>Just like the G in gnaws.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And people, places or things, to me<br>Were always known as nouns; <br>I find it odd that ladies then, <br>Don't sleep in their night-GOUNS.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Word endings are no better, <br>Just take for instance blue; <br>Why not EW? I ask you now<br>We don't eat Irish STUE.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And double letters easily<br>Can set your brain a-spinning; <br>We put one N in losing, <br>And then put two in winning.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'I before E, except after C'<br>Was taught for years in schools; <br>But NEITHER VEIL nor VEIN are BEING<br>Obedient to the rules.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With all these contradictions<br>And gross anomalies, <br>I think I'll give up English, <br>And try to learn Chinese! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Written Oct 1994</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Carter+Brown">John Carter Brown</a><div class=q>
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Or swing from the BOW of a tree; 
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