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Dearest
creature
in
creation,
Study
English
pronounciation.
I
will
teach
you
in
my
verse
Sounds
like
corpse,
corps,
horse,
and
worse.
I
will
keep
you,
Suzy,
busy,
Make
your
head
with
heat
grow
dizzy.
Tear
in
eye,
your
dress
will
tear.
So
shall
I!
Oh
hear
my
prayer.
Just
compare
heart,
beard,
and
heard,
Dies
and
diet,
lord
and
word,
Sword
and
sward,
retain
and
Britain.
(Mind
the
latter,
how
it's
written.)
Now
I
surely
will
not
plague
you
With
such
words
as
plaque
and
argue.
But
be
careful
how
you
speak:
Say
break
and
steak,
but
bleak
and
streak;
Cloven,
oven,
how
and
low,
Script,
receipt,
show,
poem,
and
toe.
Hear
me
say,
devoid
of
trickery,
Daughter,
laughter,
and
Terpsichore,
Typhoid,
measles,
topsails,
aisles,
Exiles,
similes,
and
reviles;
Scholar,
vicar,
and
cigar,
Solar,
mica,
war
and
far;
One,
anemone,
Balmoral,
Kitchen,
lichen,
laundry,
Laurel;
Gertrude,
German,
wind
and
mind,
Scene,
Melpomene,
mankind.
Billet
does
not
rhyme
with
ballet,
Bouquet,
wallet,
mallet,
chalet.
Blood
and
flood
are
not
like
food,
Nor
is
mould
like
should
and
would.
Viscous,
viscount,
load
and
broad,
Toward,
to
forward,
to
reward.
And
your
pronounciation’s
OK
When
you
correctly
say
croquet,
Rounded,
wounded,
grieve
and
sieve,
Friend
and
fiend,
alive
and
live.
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Ivy,
privy,
famous;
clamour
And
enamour
rhyme
with
hammer.
River,
rival,
tomb,
bomb,
comb,
Doll
and
roll
and
some
and
home.
Stranger
does
not
rhyme
with
anger,
Neither
does
devour
with
clangour.
Souls
but
foul,
haunt
but
aunt,
Font,
front,
wont,
want,
grand,
and
grant,
Shoes,
goes,
does.
Now
first
say
finger,
And
then
singer,
ginger,
linger,
Real,
zeal,
mauve,
gauze,
gouge
and
gauge,
Marriage,
foliage,
mirage,
and
age.
Query
does
not
rhyme
with
very,
Nor
does
fury
sound
like
bury.
Dost,
lost,
post
and
doth,
cloth,
loth.
Job,
nob,
bosom,
transom,
oath.
Though
the
differences
seem
little,
We
say
actual
but
victual.
Refer
does
not
rhyme
with
deafer.
Foeffer
does,
and
zephyr,
heifer.
Mint,
pint,
senate
and
sedate;
Dull,
and
bull,
and
George
ate
late.
Scenic,
Arabic,
Pacific,
Science,
conscience,
scientific.
Liberty,
library,
heave
and
heaven,
Rachel,
ache,
moustache,
eleven.
We
say
hallowed,
but
allowed,
People,
leopard,
towed,
but
vowed.
Mark
the
differences,
moreover,
Between
mover,
cover,
clover;
Leeches,
breeches,
wise,
precise,
Chalice,
but
police
and
lice;
Camel,
constable,
unstable,
Principle,
disciple,
label.
Petal,
panel,
and
canal,
Wait,
surprise,
plait,
promise,
pal.
Worm
and
storm,
chaise,
chaos,
chair,
Senator,
spectator,
mayor.
Tour,
but
our
and
succour,
four.
Gas,
alas,
and
Arkansas. |
Sea,
idea,
Korea,
area,
Psalm,
Maria,
but
malaria.
Youth,
south,
southern,
cleanse
and
clean.
Doctrine,
turpentine,
marine.
Compare
alien
with
Italian,
Dandelion
and
battalion.
Sally
with
ally,
yea,
ye,
Eye,
I,
ay,
aye,
whey,
and
key.
Say
aver,
but
ever,
fever,
Neither,
leisure,
skein,
deceiver.
Heron,
granary,
canary.
Crevice
and
device
and
aerie.
Face,
but
preface,
not
efface.
Phlegm,
phlegmatic,
ass,
glass,
bass.
Large,
but
target,
gin,
give,
verging,
Ought,
out,
joust
and
scour,
scourging.
Ear,
but
earn
and
wear
and
tear.
Do
not
rhyme
with
here
but
ere.
Seven
is
right,
but
so
is
even,
Hyphen,
roughen,
nephew
Stephen,
Monkey,
donkey,
Turk
and
jerk,
Ask,
grasp,
wasp,
and
cork
and
work.
Pronunciation
--
think
of
Psyche!
Is
a
paling
stout
and
spikey?
Won't
it
make
you
lose
your
wits,
Writing
groats
and
saying
grits?
It's
a
dark
abyss
or
tunnel:
Strewn
with
stones,
stowed,
solace,
gunwale,
Islington
and
Isle
of
Wight,
Housewife,
verdict
and
indict.
Finally,
which
rhymes
with
enough
--
Though,
through,
plough,
or
dough,
or
cough?
Hiccough
has
the
sound
of
cup.
My
advice
is
to
give
up!
No,
NEVER
EVER
do
that! |
