ok... i did. it's been one day, and i
feel the same.

umm... try reading this out LOUD. it's for my
linguistics class

"I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble but not you
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, and dreadful word,
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's like bed, and 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)."