Speaking Skills Saturday
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-11-13 11:23:56
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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 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 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!!!*Excerpted from [ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://40ssingleness-learnenglish.blogspot.com/2007/09/speaking-skills-saturday_08.html
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