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Old 02-11-2015, 05:55 PM   #8427
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An oldie by still amusing:

Spell Checker

I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I dew knot sea.
I've seen this before. In the verse above, is "dew" really a homophone of "do"? It's the only thing in a clever poem that doesn't feel right to me as a UK English speaker.
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