I take it you already know

[SaHiR]

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Some falter, (but I think not you)
On hiccough; thorough, tough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word,
that looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; It's said like bed not bead
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not the moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother;
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear
And then there's dose and rose and lose;
just look these up, with goose and choose.

Now, cork and work; and card and ward;
And font and front; and word and sword;
And do and go; and thwart and cart
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? sakes alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!