I take it you already knowOf tough and bough and cough and dough?Others may stumble, but not you,On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,To learn of less familiar traps?Beware of heard, a dreadful wordThat looks like beard and sounds like bird,And dead: it's said like bed, not bead - For goodness sake don't 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 thereNor dear and fear for bear and pear,And then there's dose and rose and lose -Just look them up - and goose and choose, And cork and work and card and ward,And font and front and word and sword,And do and go and thwart and cart - Come, come, I've hardly made a start!A dreadful language? Man alive!I'd mastered it when I was five!

Some palindromes

Radar level step on no pets pull up if i pull up was it a rat I saw?

Pangrams

• A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog (33 letters)

• Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs (32)

floccinaucinihilipilification

• Longest unchallenged nontechnical word in the Oxford English Dictionary (29 letters).

• It means, `the action or habit of estimating something as worthless‘

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl...isoleucine

(189,819 letters) Chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.

Technical; not in dictionary; disputed whether it is a word

ghoti

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GB Shaw

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What makes an expert reader/writer?

The quirty charns knagged the forik The quirty charns knagged the forik fobes chirpily.fobes chirpily.Therefore, the fobes tored the charns. Therefore, the fobes tored the charns. They also renked the birry boke.They also renked the birry boke.

Who knagged chirpily?What did the quirty charns do? How did they do it?How did the forik fobes react?Did the forik fobes do anything else? What did they do?Who renked the birry boke?Why did the fobes tore the charns?

In your opinion, did the birry boke deserve it? Why?

Discuss the reasons for the fobes’ behaviour