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English Pronunciation

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, you 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, folliage, 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, chase, 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, dive, 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!!!

V. Transcribe the following sentences. Mark the stresses and tunes:

1. Is Doctor Sandford in?

2. She is in the park with Benny, and old Mrs. Sandford is not well.

3. What’s the matter? It isn’t the flu, is it?

4. Come in, Mr. White, and have a talk with Mrs. Sandford.

5. She is always glad to see you.

6. I’m so sorry Mr. Sandford is not at home yet.

7. On Saturday Mr. Sandford is at home after four.

8. I am a writer, just a beginner, you know.

9. My best companions are two girl-friends.

10. They are very kind, jolly and well-bread.

11. My brother-in-law, Henry Sandford, is married to my elder sister Helen.

12. We have white mice, a hedgehog and a parrot in the house.

13. Now Benny is eager to have a rabbit.

14. But his mother is against it, we have no peace because of all Benny’s animals and birds.

15. The five members of his family are: his mother, his sister-in-law, his son Benny, his wife Helen and himself.

16. Benny is an only child and there are no boys or girls in the family for him to play with.

17. Granny, have I any cousins?

18. Not so many questions at once, please, Benny!

19. Your cousins are: a five-year-old boy, Georgie, and a four-year-old girl, May.

20. They are in Canada now with their parents: your Aunt Emily, my daughter, and her husband, Mr. Thomas Brown.

21. It’s just the time for your midday milk.

22. I expect no one is away?

23. Mike, will you take your exercise-book and come to the board?

24. Shall I write the words in transcription?

25. The others should write down the mistakes if she has any.

26. I believe there is some palatalization in the words “family” and “Benny”.

27. Pronunciation is your weak point, I’m afraid.

28. Shall I read the text again for the next time?

29. Have another try and make your reading more distinct.

30. Will you, please switch on the cassette-recorder?

31. Doctor Sandford’s house is not very large but it is comfortable and well-planned.

32. In front of the house there is a green lawn and a lot of flowers.

33. Behind it there is a little orchard with a few fruit trees in it.

34. The furniture is modern and quite new.

35. There are also several rooms upstairs on the first floor: the Sandfords’ bedroom, grandmother’s room, which is also Benny’s nursery, Betty’s room and the bathroom.

36. Would you like to have it for the next year?

37. We never remember such things in time.

38. Must I pay anything right now?

39. You’ll have some tea with us, won’t you?

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