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I take it you already know
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Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
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Others may stumble, but not you
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On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through?
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Well done! And now you wish, perhaps
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To learn of less familiar traps?
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Beware of heard, a dreadful word
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That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
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And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
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For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
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Watch out for meat and great and threat,
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(they rhyme with suite and straight and debt)
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A moth is not a moth in mother.
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Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
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And here is not a match for there.
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And dear and fear for bear and pear.
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And then there's dose and rose and lose --
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Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
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And cork and work and card and ward,
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And font and front and word and sword.
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And do and go, then thwart and cart.
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Come, come, I've hardly made a start.
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A dreadful language? Why, man alive,
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I'd learned to talk it when I was five,
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And yet to write it, the more I tried,
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I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!
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Another file downloaded from: The NIRVANAnet(tm) Seven
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& the Temple of the Screaming Electron Taipan Enigma 510/935-5845
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Burn This Flag Zardoz 408/363-9766
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realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 510/527-1662
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Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 801/278-2699
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The New Dork Sublime Biffnix 415/864-DORK
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The Shrine Rif Raf 206/794-6674
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Planet Mirth Simon Jester 510/786-6560
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"Raw Data for Raw Nerves"
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