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Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation. |
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation. |
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. |
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. |
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. |
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.) |
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 ague. |
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague. |
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. |
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 |
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 |
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far |
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel |
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel |
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind. |
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind. |
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet |
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet |
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would. |
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would. |
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward. |
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward. |
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live. |
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live. |
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer. |
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer. |
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home. |
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home. |
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury. |
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. |
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. |
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual. |
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual. |
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. |
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. |
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Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific. |
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific. |
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. |
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. |
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed. |
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed. |
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover |
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover |
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice |
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice |
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label. |
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label. |
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. |
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. |
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four. |
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. |
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria. |
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine. |
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. |
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. |
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. |
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie. |
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie. |
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. |
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. |
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. |
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. |
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 |
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen |
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. |
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. |
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey? |
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey? |
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits? |
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. |
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? |
Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? |
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up! |
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up! |
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