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b"A lecture exploring the history, development and influence of the English language.\\n\\nThe Poems read in the lecture:\\n\\nWhen the English tongue we speak.\\nWhy is break not rhymed with freak?\\nWill you tell me why it's true\\nWe say sew but likewise few?\\nAnd the maker of the verse,\\nCannot rhyme his horse with worse?\\nBeard is not the same as heard\\nCord is different from word.\\nCow is cow but low is low\\nShoe is never rhymed with foe.\\nThink of hose, dose,and lose\\nAnd think of goose and yet with choose\\nThink of comb, tomb and bomb,\\nDoll and roll or home and some.\\nSince pay is rhymed with say\\nWhy not paid with said I pray?\\nThink of blood, food and good.\\nMould is not pronounced like could.\\nWherefore done, but gone and lone -\\nIs there any reason known?\\nTo sum up all, it seems to me\\nSound and letters don't agree.\\n\\n\\nWe must polish the Polish furniture.\\nHe could lead if he would get the lead out.\\nThe farm was used to produce produce.\\nThe dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.\\nThe soldier decided to desert in the desert.\\nThis was a good time to present the present.\\nA bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.\\nWhen shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.\\nI did not object to the object.\\nThe insurance was invalid for the invalid.\\nThe bandage was wound around the wound.\\nThere was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.\\nThey were too close to the door to close it.\\nThe buck does funny things when the does are present.\\nThey sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.\\nTo help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.\\nThe wind was too strong to wind the sail.\\nAfter a number of injections my jaw got number.\\nUpon seeing the tear in my clothes I shed a tear.\\nI had to subject the subject to a series of tests.\\nHow can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?\\nI read it once and will read it agent\\nI learned much from this learned treatise.\\nI was content to note the content of the message.\\nThe Blessed Virgin blessed her. Blessed her richly.\\nIt's a bit wicked to over-trim a short wicked candle.\\nIf he will absent himself we mark him absent.\\nI incline toward bypassing the incline."