A Spelling Masquerade (Homework WE 23/12/13)
Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 10:25 am
The poem below is a spelling challenge masquerading as verse...all about homophones, which are words masquerading as others. If you read the poem out loud it will sound perfectly OK, but there are 26 spelling mistakes because I've used words that have the same pronunciation, but a different spelling and meaning. Some are obvious, others perhaps not so. The challenge is to identify all 26. There are no prizes because...in line with popular opinion...it's not a competition!
The interesting thing is to see how many are picked up on the first read-though. I'll post the full list in a week or so.
Cheers
David
A Spelling Masquerade
I except that mistakes can be maid when we right,
but a homophone problem’s a frustrating site,
for it means we’ve bean careless and not checked our sauce,
and a plane, simple error throws poems off-coarse.
It’s a principal all of us need to learn well
to insure that the words that we use always tell
all our readers the storey we meant them to here,
for illusions that mystify others show weir
not on top of our game and our work has a floor,
something dragging it down when we’d like it to sore.
If we want to show flare and retain there respect
then we mustn’t get court using words that reflect
any absence of rigour…there’s too much at steak
if we lesson the impact with blunders we make.
It’s the bane of my life as a judge when I reed
a grate poem that’s waisted by not paying heed
to the rules of our language that should be held deer
if our verse is to flour for many a year.
© David Campbell 12/12/13
The interesting thing is to see how many are picked up on the first read-though. I'll post the full list in a week or so.
Cheers
David
A Spelling Masquerade
I except that mistakes can be maid when we right,
but a homophone problem’s a frustrating site,
for it means we’ve bean careless and not checked our sauce,
and a plane, simple error throws poems off-coarse.
It’s a principal all of us need to learn well
to insure that the words that we use always tell
all our readers the storey we meant them to here,
for illusions that mystify others show weir
not on top of our game and our work has a floor,
something dragging it down when we’d like it to sore.
If we want to show flare and retain there respect
then we mustn’t get court using words that reflect
any absence of rigour…there’s too much at steak
if we lesson the impact with blunders we make.
It’s the bane of my life as a judge when I reed
a grate poem that’s waisted by not paying heed
to the rules of our language that should be held deer
if our verse is to flour for many a year.
© David Campbell 12/12/13
