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Mind your P's and Q's (and O's too)

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So my fellow bored actors, lurkers, vamps, llamas and other creatures. How about reading some of this and posting your voice for a good laugh...
Puppi I am sure there are some here that you cannot say :D
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.


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 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,
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 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.
Query 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.
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, bottom, 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,
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 to give up!!!

English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
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Man, I'll probably get quite a few wrong! And make a fool of myself. :)
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That is cool. Every English classroom should have this on the wall.
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WiK1d wrote:That is cool. Every English classroom should have this on the wall.
How high was your classroom wall :?:
by G. Nolst Trenité
Ironically the authors name is the only thing I had any real difficulty pronouncing :lol:
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Pretty cool
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Love it
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That was fun. Will it fit on a Bookface status?

Edit: Evidently so. :)
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I lost it at "Dearest creature in creation," when I saw the wall of text.

CURSE YOU WALL OF TEXT! CURSE YOU!
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jamin_za wrote:
WiK1d wrote:That is cool. Every English classroom should have this on the wall.
How high was your classroom wall :?:
Over 9000, thanks for asking
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That has to be one of the best poems ever...
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RuadRauFlessa wrote:That has to be one of the best poems ever...
Misters Yates, Whitman, Poe, Cummings and a few others might disagree...
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^^ lets put it this way.... In terms of entertainment value it is one of the best poems ever.
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Shame doo - to limit yourself because of length.
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some people just don't know how to have fun anymore if its not dished up in a byte size....
"Integrity" and "integer" both contain a Latin root meaning "whole; complete." The root sense, then, is that people may be said to be acting with integrity when their beliefs, words, and actions have a sense of unity or wholeness.
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:lol: i can manage about 60% of the way through before my mind starts wibbling...
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These men and their short attention spans. Definitely explains why there are so many dissatisfied women.
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Who would dare to record themselves and to post it here? C'mon Tribbs, let us hear your posh accent! :)
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Tribble wrote:These men and their short attention spans. Definitely explains why there are so many dissatisfied women.

Meh woman :lol:
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I may talk strange but that is by design. Many years of speech and drama lessons.

Besides I don't sound so nice anymore. Got an old lady's voice
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