phonetic phoolishness

IF YOU pronounce HEAD,DEED and BEAD.

you'll hear the last word rhymes with DEED,

and in this "poem" you will find

Many items of this kind,

for instance:

Dear and fear and hear but bear

Gear and tear but wear and tear

Yeast and east and pleased but pleasant,

Beat but breast and please but pleasant,

Meat and peat but sweet and great

(The last word rhymes with Freight and weight.)

Quite different again is height,

Which sounds like BITE, INDICT and light

the next line should be read with care:

the praying payer says his prayer.

Bean and lean and mean but meant;

Note "g" in Get , in gem and gent.

Vice but crevice-advice-device,

Lice but malice-police-concise,

We say dreamt but also dreamed

(the last latter rhyming with esteemed),

Crew and blew and new but sew,

Cow and how but sow and row

Measles does not sound like measure:

The same applies to treason - treasure