The Chintz Biopsy A Non-Phonetic Alphabet Book which also includes a useful guide on “How to Annoy Nuisance Phone Callers.” To practice your letters So late in the night Would make quite a racket My dear little mite So now I will teach you For worse or for better Those words where you don’t Pronounce the first letter. A is for aubergine - ‘Cause it starts with an O There’s not an O in it And that’s how you know I is for Irksome - A thing that annoys. Like the I within business Which too makes no noise. L is for llama - Because as it’s reckoned The first L is silent; Or is it the second? T is tsunami - A threat from the sea And listen in castle For the same silent T.
