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ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF / L’ANGLAIS C’EST TROP DUR

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 wish 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.

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, fiver, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Nor 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. Inquiry 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. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Marie, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean, Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion with 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 there. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Steven, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation � think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spiky? 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, dough, or cough ? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!

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