The Chaos by Gerard. Nolst Trenite a.k.a. Charivarius 1870 - 1946 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, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye your dress youll 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 its written). Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague, But be careful how you speak, Say break, 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, 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 pronunciations O.K., When you say correctly: croquet. Rounded, wounded, grieve, and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive, and live, Ivy, privy, famous, clamour And enamour rime 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. Soul, but foul and gaunt 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, and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, age. Query does not rime with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth; Job, nob;, bosom, transom, oath. Though the difference seem little, We say actual, but victual. Reefer does not rime with deafer, Feoffer 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, penal, 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, Asp, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation--think of psyche--! Is a paling, stout and spikey, Wont it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? Its a dark abyss or tunnel, Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict, and indict! Finally: which rimes with enough Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is--give up tragedy tur·quoise noun \ˈtər-ˌkȯiz, -ˌkwȯiz\ a bluish-green stone used in jewelry cham·ois noun \ˈsha-mē,= soft leather that is made from the skin of goats, sheep, or chamois lab·y·rinth noun \ˈla-bə-ˌrin(t)th = a place that has many confusing paths or passages brooch noun \ˈbrōch also ˈbrüch\ = a piece of jewelry that is held on clothing by a pin and worn by a woman at or near her neck bil·let noun \ˈbi-lət\ quarters assigned by or as if by a billet cha·let noun \sha-ˈlā, ˈsha-(ˌ)lā\ = a type of house that has a steep roof that extends past the walls par·quet verb \pär-ˈkā\ (Parkaey) = to furnish with a floor of parquet sieve noun \ˈsiv\ = a kitchen tool that has many small holes and that is used to separate smaller particles from larger ones or solids from liquids fiend noun \ˈfēnd\ = an evil spirit : a demon or devil plo·ver noun \ˈplə-vər, ˈplō-\ = a type of bird that has a short beak and that lives near the sea sur·mise noun \sər-ˈmīz, ˈsər-ˌ\ : a thought or idea based on scanty evidence : conjecture gaol, gaol·er \ˈjāl\\ˈjā-lər\ = Jail chaise noun \ˈshāz\ = any of various light horse-drawn vehicles: as clan·gour \ˈklaŋ-ər, -gər\ (clanger) chiefly British variant of clangor, a resounding clang or medley of clangs
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