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 agne.
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;
schola, 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 and aunt,
font, front, won't, want, grand, 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.
Quer 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 difference 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;
Camil, constable, unstable,
priciple, 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 bute 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 give it up!!!
Author unknown
Puh, ich garantiere nicht für die Richtigkeit, es haben sich bestimmt Tippfehler eingeschichen. Aber vielleicht ist es hilfreich. Gruß, Helmesberger.
