Sounds like a problem for people from Reading (UK).
Or Reading, Pennsylvania
I had no trouble reading this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Welcome to English, where everything is made up and the rules and spelling mean nothing.
Let’s just start using red like we do for the past tense of lead.
Red vs reed
leaded?
I vote on readed. Yes, it looks wrong now, but give it a few days
“There are my red books”
“Some of them look quite blue to me”
ADHD reading
TIHI
Read like lead, not read like lead.
I hear that buffalo have the same problem.
For those that haven’t tried. See how far you can get reading this poem out loud…
What’s up with made/bade? I pronounce those the same way.
Bade is the past tense of “bid” and is technically pronounced the same as “bad”. Link: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bade
Essentially, the pronunciation follows the same pattern as words like “sit - sat”, but the spelling pattern follows a different Old English pattern.
It’s a 100 year old poem, I’m guessing it was pronounced different in that area at the time.
What in the hell
I got to head and read it as head and gave up…
About halfway through I got a headache and had to lay down
It is a particularly masochistic poem to read aloud. 😁
Ha that is great! Like a maze for your mind and mouth. However that poem is now 100 years old, so I did notice some spelling and pronunciation errors :)
I’d say English is broken but that implies it was working at some point
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