Abnormalities in Spoken English…

I wander how we English speak
without a care for error peak.
And when you ask a phonic hat,
You only hear that that is that…

I’m not a fool – I can’t agree
like those that dive in fooling sea –
that – one can change the ‘say’ to /sez/,
but never turn the ‘pay’ to /pez/.
They say that past of ‘say’ is /sed/,
but never say that ‘pay’ is /ped/…

I can’t afford to call the ‘isle’
the way I call my poetry ‘file’…
But how can ‘ewe’ be called as ‘you’,
And ‘P’ in soup is not in ‘coup’?

And why is it that ‘awe’ is ‘or’
And say that ‘corps’ is called like core?
And how can ‘rapped’ be called like ‘rapt’;
but ‘depot’ kills the ‘t’ in ‘…pot’?

I don’t believe that ‘whew’ is ‘few’
and even think that ‘queue’ is ‘Q’!
Do you believe that ‘fete’ is ‘fate’,
whereas the ‘mete’ is never ‘mate’?

We only say that ‘sew’ is ‘sow’,
but never heard that ‘chew’ is ‘chow’!
You need look at ‘show’ and ‘chow’ –
compare to ‘sow’ and also ‘cow’…
And how timbre becomes /tamba/,
but timber sticks to that /timba/…

The phonic hats should seat again
and put a stop to phonic pain…!

AFRICA AGAIN !!!
100 TPC IN THE GAMBIA:

THEME: POVERTY AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN AFRICA: A CALL FOR CHANGE!
DATE : 30 August – September 24
Venue: (1) Bajul August 30
(2) Bakau September 7
(3) Kanifing September 24

DRUMMER CIRCLE – BANJUL THE GAMBIA
WILL SHAKE THE WORLD
WITH D R U M THIS MONTH –
24 SEPTEMBER, 2011…