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Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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 pronunciation'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 rhymes 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.
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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, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.