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English and it absurdities

A little poem author unknown that will help some with their English pronouciation 

Go on try it out....be Brave....

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.

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.

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 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.
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, 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!!!

 

30 giugno 2015
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我是写第一输入, not sure if this works in Chinese as well as English, read a comment on other site "In the fire of art I would gladly place my hand" Which gave a response "in the rivers of sound is where I find my mind," as I am struggling with getting tones.... thought I'd try 在最亮的火艺术 我会很高兴地潜水 音响运行深像河流 是时间的脑海里变得活
26 marzo 2015
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speak well or cannot to speak

Its interesting to see how others rate their ability to converse in a foreign lanquage, several cultures have higher expectations of what is good and what is not. I feel that Asian cultures want to be no one, and are disapointed with anything less so fail to see how much progress they have actualy made, whereas western cultures its the trying thats more importent. What do you think am I right or wrong in my assumptions

 

 

Is confidence all that is holding them back, or fear of being thought of as stupid for not knowing how  "lead" is pronouced when refering to a dog or a case.  

 

Do virtual keyboards help or hinder when trying to comunicate say in Mandarin for example or is using translators like google or MGBD, better is useing a old fashioned paper book the best way to go what do you think, have you found a tried and trusted way or are you still looking..

24 marzo 2015
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A entry for my followers to peruse perhaps so they can learn new words and ways of using them Stallions prance in fields of green svelte grass, galloping through valleys of mountain pass, spirits free to roam the glen untethered , to stand and stare thinking of racing heaven. galloping through valleys of mountain pass, towards sweet swathes of fresh new pasture, to stand and stare thinking of racing heaven. Along with brood mares and some filly's grazing galloping through valleys of mountain pass, spirits free to roam the glen untethered towards sweet swathes of fresh new pasture Stallions prance in fields of green svelte grass...
24 marzo 2015
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