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'I take it you already know' - Poster
A poster displaying ‘I take it you already know’, a poem describing the difficulties in the English language.
Use this teaching resource in the classroom to motivate students with their reading, writing and learning.
This poem quoted by Vivian Cook and Melvin Bragg 2004, by Richard Krogh, in D Bolinger & D A
Sears, Aspects of Language, 1981, and in Spelling Progress Bulletin March 1961,
Attributed to T S Watt (1954), Brush up on your English with Hints on Pronunciation for
visiting Foreigners, from the Manchester Guardian.

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