Read like lead, not read like lead.
58 0 ReplyI'd say English is broken but that implies it was working at some point
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10 0 ReplyPolice police police police police police police police
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For those that haven't tried. See how far you can get reading this poem out loud...
38 0 ReplyWhat in the hell
14 0 ReplyI got to head and read it as head and gave up..
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What's up with made/bade? I pronounce those the same way.
9 0 ReplyIt's a 100 year old poem, I'm guessing it was pronounced different in that area at the time.
14 0 ReplyBade is the past tense of "bid" and is technically pronounced the same as "bad". Link: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bade
Essentially, the pronunciation follows the same pattern as words like "sit - sat", but the spelling pattern follows a different Old English pattern.
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Ha that is great! Like a maze for your mind and mouth. However that poem is now 100 years old, so I did notice some spelling and pronunciation errors :)
8 1 ReplyAbout halfway through I got a headache and had to lay down
2 0 ReplyIt is a particularly masochistic poem to read aloud. 😁
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I had no trouble reading this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
11 0 ReplyI hear that buffalo have the same problem.
10 0 ReplySounds like a problem for people from Reading (UK).
9 0 ReplyOr Reading, Pennsylvania
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Let's just start using red like we do for the past tense of lead.
8 1 ReplyRed vs reed
3 0 ReplyI vote on readed. Yes, it looks wrong now, but give it a few days
3 1 Reply"There are my red books"
"Some of them look quite blue to me"
2 0 Replyleaded?
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Welcome to English, where everything is made up and the rules and spelling mean nothing.
6 1 ReplyTIHI
2 0 ReplyADHD reading
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