Moses Supposes his Toeses are Roses

I discovered this silly rhyme in my daughter's book of nursery rhymes - it's said to be traditional, but was made famous in the film "singing in the rain" with Gene Kelly.

For those of you that have a good level in English, or are teaching English, this

is a very good pronunciation exercise for the diphthong:

It's also a good way to demonstrate stress patterns in English, in this rhyme it is the "o" sound that is stressed, which is normal, for dipthongs are hard to contract, or swallow as my students prefer to say.

Here is the ryhme in full:

Moses supposes his toeses are roses

But Moses supposes erroneously

for nobody's toeses are posies of roses

As Moses supposes his toeses to be.