PHONETICS (M and F)

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Phonetics is a funny word

It's full of filly fings

Like numba, pol and eroplane

Vallie, thru and com


Yet we all know or is it no

That it's a complicated fing

This spelling


To tell the difference between

Number and Numba

Pole and Pol

Aeroplane and Eroplane

Or so it seems


Yet a little child will still

Not see the pointlessness

In spelling correctly

Like valley for vallie

Through for thru

Comb for com

It's a difficult dilemma you see


For to teach you must spell

(Or is that spel)

And determine the rightness or wrongness of a word

You dictate

For little children if not led

Will just spell out of their head

Like B for Bee

And peac for peace


And so I do dictate

All teachers be you great or small

Must be all


A working dictionary

To us all


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