Same words have different meanings or different words have same pronunciation. Read the following. Some words have different meanings and yet theyre spelled the same. A cricket is an insect, to play it - its a game. On every hand, in every land, its thoroughly agreed, The English language to explain, is very hard indeed. . Some people say that youre dear, yet dear is far from cheap. A jumper is a thing to wear, yet a jumper has to leap. Its very clear, its very queer, and, pray who to blame For different meanings to some words pronounced and spelled the same? A little journey is a trip, a trip is when you fall. It doesnt mean you have to dance wheneer you hold a ball. Now heres a thing that puzzles me: musicians of good taste Will very often form a band - Ive one around my waist! You spin a top, go for a spin, or spin a yarn maybe - Yet every spins a different spin, as you can plainly see. Now here s a most peculiar thing, twas told me as a joke - A dumb man wouldnt speak a word, yet seized a wheel and spoke! A door may often be ajar, but give the door a slam And then your nerves receive a jar - and then theres jars of jam. Youve heard, of course, of traffic jams, and jams you give your thumbs. And adders, too, one is a snake, the other adds up sums. A policeman is a copper, its nickname (impolite!) Yet a copper in the kitchen is an article you light. On every hand, in every land, its thoroughly agreed, The English language to explain is very hard indeed! Now note the words and pronunciation Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead: its said like bed, not bead - And only Scotsmen call it deed! Watch out for meat and great and threat. They rhyme with suite and straight and debt. A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother, and here is not a match for there Nor dear and fear for bear and pear, And then theres dose and rose and lose - Just look them up - and goose and choose. And cork and work and card and ward, And do and go, and thwart and cart - Come, come, Ive hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive - Id mastered it when I was five.
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