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This poem provides a humorous overview of inconsistencies in English pronunciation and spelling through rhyming verses. It notes many words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently, such as "blood" and "flood" or "dough" and "cough." It encourages careful pronunciation by comparing the sounds of words like "refer" and "deafer" or "very" and "query." The poem concludes that English pronunciation is very challenging and advises giving up trying to learn all the complex rules. In under 3 sentences, it humorously highlights inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation through rhyming examples.
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Dearest Creature in Creation (English Pronunciation)
This poem provides a humorous overview of inconsistencies in English pronunciation and spelling through rhyming verses. It notes many words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently, such as "blood" and "flood" or "dough" and "cough." It encourages careful pronunciation by comparing the sounds of words like "refer" and "deafer" or "very" and "query." The poem concludes that English pronunciation is very challenging and advises giving up trying to learn all the complex rules. In under 3 sentences, it humorously highlights inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation through rhyming examples.
This poem provides a humorous overview of inconsistencies in English pronunciation and spelling through rhyming verses. It notes many words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently, such as "blood" and "flood" or "dough" and "cough." It encourages careful pronunciation by comparing the sounds of words like "refer" and "deafer" or "very" and "query." The poem concludes that English pronunciation is very challenging and advises giving up trying to learn all the complex rules. In under 3 sentences, it humorously highlights inconsistencies in English spelling and pronunciation through rhyming examples.
Dearest creature in creation, Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Study English pronunciation. Solar, mica, war and far;
I will teach you in my verse One, anemone, Balmoral, Sounds like corpse, corps, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, horse, and worse. laurel; I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Gertrude, German, wind and Make your head with heat mind, grow dizzy. Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Tear in eye, your dress will Billet does not rhyme with tear. ballet, So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Bouquet, wallet, mallet, Just compare heart, beard, chalet. and heard, Blood and flood are not like Dies and diet, lord and word, food, Sword and sward, retain and Nor is mould like should and Britain. would. (Mind the latter, how it’s Viscous, viscount, load and written.) broad, Now I surely will not plague Toward, to forward, to reward. you And your pronunciation’s OK With such words as plaque When you correctly say and ague. croquet, But be careful how you speak: Rounded, wounded, grieve Say break and steak, but and sieve, bleak and streak; Friend and fiend, alive and Cloven, oven, how and low, live. Script, receipt, show, poem, Ivy, privy, famous; clamour and toe. And enamour rhyme with Hear me say, devoid of hammer. trickery, River, rival, tomb, bomb, Daughter, laughter, and comb, Terpsichore, Doll and roll and some and Typhoid, measles, topsails, home. aisles, Stranger does not rhyme with Exiles, similes, and reviles; anger, Neither does devour with Rachel, ache, moustache, clangour. eleven. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, We say hallowed, but allowed, Font, front, wont, want, grand, People, leopard, towed, but and grant, vowed. Shoes, goes, does. Now first Mark the differences, say finger, moreover, And then singer, ginger, Between mover, cover, clover; linger, Leeches, breeches, wise, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, precise, gouge and gauge, Chalice, but police and lice; Marriage, foliage, mirage, and Camel, constable, unstable, age. Principle, disciple, label. Query does not rhyme with Petal, panel, and canal, very, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, Nor does fury sound like bury. pal. Dost, lost, post and doth, Worm and storm, chaise, cloth, loth. chaos, chair, Job, nob, bosom, transom, Senator, spectator, mayor. oath. Tour, but our and succour, Though the differences seem four. little, Gas, alas, and Arkansas. We say actual but victual. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Refer does not rhyme with Psalm, Maria, but malaria. deafer. Youth, south, southern, Foeffer does, and zephyr, cleanse and clean. heifer. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Compare alien with Italian, Dull, bull, and George ate Dandelion and battalion. late. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and Science, conscience, key. scientific. Say aver, but ever, fever, Liberty, library, heave and Neither, leisure, skein, heaven, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Though, through, plough, or Crevice and device and aerie. dough, or cough? Face, but preface, not efface. Hiccough has the sound of Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, cup. glass, bass. My advice is to give up!!! 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,