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Dearest [I]creature[/I] in [I]creation[/I]
Studying English [I]pronunciation[/I],[INDENT]I will teach you in my [I]verse[/I][/INDENT][INDENT]Sounds like [I]corpse, corps, horse[/I] and [I]worse[/I].[/INDENT]I will keep you, [I]Susy, busy[/I],
Make your [I]head[/I] with [I]heat[/I] grow dizzy;[INDENT][I]Tear[/I] in eye, your dress you'll [I]tear[/I];[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Queer[/I], fair [I]seer, hear[/I] my [I]prayer[/I].[/INDENT][I]Pray[/I], console your loving [I]poet[/I],
Make my coat look [I]new[/I], dear, [I]sew it[/I]! 10[INDENT]Just compare [I]heart, hear[/I] and [I]heard[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Dies[/I] and [I]diet, lord[/I] and [I]word[/I].[/INDENT][I]Sword[/I] and [I]sward, retain[/I] and [I]Britain[/I]
(Mind the latter how it's [I]written[/I]).[INDENT][I]Made[/I] has not the sound of [I]bade[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Say - said, pay - paid, laid[/I] but [I]plaid[/I].[/INDENT]Now I surely will not [I]plague you[/I]
With such words as [I]vague[/I] and [I]ague[/I],[INDENT]But be careful how you [I]speak[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT]Say: [I]gush, bush, steak, streak[/I], [I]break, bleak[/I], 20[/INDENT][I]Previous, precious, fuchsia, via[/I]
[I]Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;[/I][INDENT][I]Woven, oven, how[/I] and [I]low[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Script, receipt, shoe, poem[/I], [I]toe[/I].[/INDENT]Say, expecting fraud and [I]trickery[/I]:
[I]Daughter, laughter[/I] and [I]Terpsichore[/I],[INDENT][I]Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Missiles, similes, reviles[/I].[/INDENT][I]Wholly, holly, signal, signing[/I],
[I]Same, examining[/I], but [I]mining[/I], 30[INDENT][I]Scholar, vicar[/I], and [I]cigar[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Solar, mica, war[/I] and [I]far[/I].[/INDENT]From "desire": [I]desirable - admirable[/I] from "admire",
[I]Lumber, plumber, bier[/I], but [I]brier[/I],[INDENT][I]Topsham, brougham, renown[/I], but [I]known[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone[/I],[/INDENT][I]One, anemone, Balmoral[/I],
[I]Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel[/I].[INDENT][I]Gertrude, German, wind[/I] and [I]wind[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind[/I], 40[/INDENT][I]Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather[/I],
[I]Reading, Reading, heathen, heather[/I].[INDENT]This phonetic labyrinth[/INDENT][INDENT]Gives [I]moss, gross, brook, brooch[/I], [I]ninth, plinth[/I].[/INDENT]Have you ever yet [I]endeavoured[/I]
To pronounce [I]revered[/I] and [I]severed[/I],[INDENT][I]Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Peter, petrol[/I] and [I]patrol[/I]?[/INDENT][I]Billet[/I] does not end like [I]ballet[/I];
[I]Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet[/I]. 50[INDENT][I]Blood[/I] and [I]flood[/I] are not like [I]food[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT]Nor is [I]mould[/I] like [I]should[/I] and [I]would[/I].[/INDENT][I]Banquet[/I] is not nearly [I]parquet[/I],
Which exactly rhymes with [I]khaki[/I].[INDENT][I]Discount, viscount, load[/I] and [I]broad[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Toward[/I], to [I]forward[/I], to [I]reward[/I],[/INDENT][I]Ricocheted[/I] and [I]crocheting, croquet[/I]?
Right! Your pronunciation's OK.[INDENT][I]Rounded, wounded, grieve[/I] and [I]sieve[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Friend[/I] and [I]fiend, alive[/I] and [I]live[/I]. 60[/INDENT]Is your R correct in [I]higher[/I]?
Keats asserts it rhymes with [I]Thalia[/I].[INDENT][I]Hugh[/I], but [I]hug[/I], and [I]hood[/I], but [I]hoot[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Buoyant, minute[/I], but [I]minute[/I].[/INDENT]Say [I]abscission[/I] with [I]precision[/I],
Now: [I]position[/I] and [I]transition[/I];[INDENT] Would it tally with my [I]rhyme[/I][/INDENT][INDENT]If I mentioned [I]paradigm[/I]?[/INDENT][I]Twopence, threepence, tease[/I] are [I]easy[/I],
But[I] cease, crease, grease[/I] and [I]greasy[/I]? 70[INDENT][I]Cornice, nice, valise, revise[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Rabies,[/I] but [I]lullabies[/I].[/INDENT]Of such puzzling words as [I]nauseous[/I],
Rhyming well with [I]cautious, tortious[/I],[INDENT]You'll [I]envelop[/I] lists, I hope,[/INDENT][INDENT]In a linen [I]envelope[/I].[/INDENT]Would you like some more? You'll [I]have[/I] it!
[I]Affidavit, David, davit[/I].[INDENT]To [I]abjure[/I], to [I]perjure. Sheik[/I][/INDENT][INDENT]Does not sound like [I]Czech[/I] but [I]ache[/I]. 80[/INDENT][I]Liberty, library, heave[/I] and [I]heaven[/I],
[I]Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven[/I].[INDENT]We say [I]hallowed[/I], but [I]allowed[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]People, leopard, towed[/I] but [I]vowed[/I].[/INDENT]Mark the difference, moreover,
Between [I]mover, plover, Dover[/I].[INDENT][I]Leeches, breeches, wise, precise[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Chalice[/I], but [I]police[/I] and [I]lice[/I],[/INDENT][I]Camel, constable, unstable[/I],
[I]Principle, disciple, label[/I]. 90[INDENT][I]Petal, penal[/I], and [I]canal[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal[/I],[/INDENT][I]Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit[/I]
Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it",[INDENT]But it is not hard to tell[/INDENT][INDENT]Why it's [I]pall, mall[/I], but [I]Pall Mall[/I].[/INDENT][I]Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron[/I],
[I]Timber, climber, bullion, lion[/I],[INDENT][I]Worm[/I] and [I]storm, chaise, chaos, chair[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Senator, spectator, mayor[/I], 100[/INDENT][I]Ivy, privy, famous; clamour[/I]
Has the A of [I]drachm[/I] and [I]hammer[/I].[INDENT][I]Pussy, hussy[/I] and [I]possess[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Desert[/I], but [I]desert, address[/I].[/INDENT][I]Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants[/I]
Hoist in [I]lieu[/I] of flags [I]left pennants[/I].[INDENT][I]Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Cow[/I], but [I]Cowper, some[/I] and [I]home[/I].[/INDENT]"[I]Solder, soldier[/I]! Blood is [I]thicker[/I]",
Quoth he, "than [I]liqueur[/I] or [I]liquor[/I]", 110[INDENT]Making, it is sad but [I]true[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT]In bravado, much [I]ado[/I].[/INDENT][I]Stranger[/I] does not rhyme with [I]anger[/I],
Neither does [I]devour[/I] with [I]clangour[/I].[INDENT][I]Pilot, pivot, gaunt[/I], but [I]aunt[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Font, front, wont, want, grand[/I] and [I]grant[/I].[/INDENT][I]Arsenic, specific, scenic[/I],
[I]Relic, rhetoric, hygienic[/I].
[INDENT][I]Gooseberry, goose[/I], and [I]close[/I], but [I]close[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Paradise, rise, rose[/I], and [I]dose[/I]. 120[/INDENT]Say [I]inveigh, neigh[/I], but [I]inveigle[/I],
Make the latter rhyme with [I]eagle[/I].[INDENT][I]Mind! Meandering[/I] but [I]mean[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Valentine[/I] and [I]magazine[/I].[/INDENT]And I bet you, dear, a [I]penny[/I],
You say [I]mani[/I]-(fold) like [I]many[/I],[INDENT]Which is wrong. Say [I]rapier, pier[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Tier[/I] (one who ties), but [I]tier[/I].[/INDENT][I]Arch, archangel[/I]; pray, does [I]erring[/I]
Rhyme with [I]herring[/I] or with [I]stirring[/I]? 130[INDENT][I]Prison, bison, treasure trove[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Treason, hover, cover, cove[/I],[/INDENT][I]Perseverance, severance. Ribald[/I]
Rhymes (but [I]piebald[/I] doesn't) with [I]nibbled[/I].[INDENT][I]Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw,[/I][/INDENT][INDENT][I]Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw[/I].[/INDENT]Don't be [I]down[/I], my [I]own[/I], but [I]rough it[/I],
And distinguish [I]buffet, buffet[/I];[INDENT][I]Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon,[/I][/INDENT][INDENT]Worcester, Boleyn, to [I]impugn[/I]. 140[/INDENT]Say in sounds correct and [I]sterling[/I]
[I]Hearse, hear, hearken, year[/I] and [I]yearling[/I].[INDENT][I]Evil, devil, mezzotint,[/I][/INDENT][INDENT]Mind the z! (A gentle hint.)[/INDENT]Now you need not pay attention
To such sounds as I don't mention,[INDENT]Sounds like [I]pores, pause, pours[/I] and [I]paws[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT]Rhyming with the pronoun [I]yours[/I];[/INDENT]Nor are proper names [I]included[/I],
Though I often heard, as [I]you did[/I], 150[INDENT]Funny rhymes to [I]unicorn[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT]Yes, you know them, [I]Vaughan[/I] and [I]Strachan[/I].[/INDENT]No, my maiden, coy and [I]comely[/I],
I don't want to speak of [I]Cholmondeley[/I].[INDENT]No. Yet [I]Froude[/I] compared with [I]proud[/I][/INDENT][INDENT]Is no better than [I]McLeod[/I].[/INDENT]But mind [I]trivial[/I] and [I]vial[/I],
[I]Tripod, menial, denial[/I],[INDENT][I]Troll[/I] and [I]trolley, realm[/I] and [I]ream[/I],[/INDENT][INDENT][I]Schedule, mischief, schism[/I], and [I]scheme[/I]. 160[/INDENT][I]Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely[/I]
May be made to rhyme with [I]Raleigh[/I],[INDENT]But you're not supposed to say[/INDENT][INDENT] [I]Piquet[/I] rhymes with [I]sobriquet[/I].[/INDENT]