Doh!
Doe
Dough
Dough
Dodo
to
too
two
tew
tutu
laugh
cough
enough
through
thorough
draught
drought
Louse–Lice
Mouse–Mice
Douse–Dice?
Nouse–Nice?
Rouse–Rice?
Spouse–Spice?
Vouse–Vice?
Blouse–Blice?
House–Hice?
Souce–Sice?
Slouse–Slice?
Do
Dew
Due
doo-doo
hint
tint
lint
mint
…pint?
“The tough coughs as he ploughs through the dough.”
Key
Quay
Cay
Carat
Karat
caret
carrot
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse…
Spelling English is easy enough
Though some people do find it rough;
It’s just I before E
Except after C
And all of the rest of that stough.
You
Yew
Ewe
U
cut the tree down
cut the tree up
The doe does strange things near the buck.
The tailor and two sewers fell into the sewers.
Sink
Sank
Sunk
Think
Thank
Thunk
ghoti
gh as in rough
o as in women
ti as in nation
Ergo ghoti is pronounced fish
Go.
Do.
There was a young man named Colquhoun
Who kept as a pet a babuhoun
His mother said ‘Cholmondeley,
I don’t think it’s quite colmondeley
To feed your babuhoun with a spuhoun’.
A daughter’s laughter
Is knowing that Cholmondeley is pronounced “chumlee” really that common? I personally have only seen it spelled chumlee or chumly.
slough (marsh)
slough (to shed)
bough
bought
dough
doughty
laugh
lough
sough
sought