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    English Pronounciation Challenge

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    This poem highlights the irregularities and inconsistencies in English pronunciation and spelling through a series of rhyming examples. It notes how words like blood and flood are pronounced differently than food, and how tongue twisters like tyrant drilling and eyelet sailing cause confusion. The poem aims to bewilder and confuse the reader with its extensive list of tricky word pairs, demonstrating why English pronunciation is so challenging to learn.

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    This poem highlights the irregularities and inconsistencies in English pronunciation and spelling through a series of rhyming examples. It notes how words like blood and flood are pronounced differently than food, and how tongue twisters like tyrant drilling and eyelet sailing cause confusion. The poem aims to bewilder and confuse the reader with its extensive list of tricky word pairs, demonstrating why English pronunciation is so challenging to learn.

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    This poem highlights the irregularities and inconsistencies in English pronunciation and spelling through a series of rhyming examples. It notes how words like blood and flood are pronounced differently than food, and how tongue twisters like tyrant drilling and eyelet sailing cause confusion. The poem aims to bewilder and confuse the reader with its extensive list of tricky word pairs, demonstrating why English pronunciation is so challenging to learn.

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    English Pronounciation Challenge

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    Marvin Augustine
    This poem highlights the irregularities and inconsistencies in English pronunciation and spelling through a series of rhyming examples. It notes how words like blood and flood are pronounced differently than food, and how tongue twisters like tyrant drilling and eyelet sailing cause confusion. The poem aims to bewilder and confuse the reader with its extensive list of tricky word pairs, demonstrating why English pronunciation is so challenging to learn.

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    The poem discusses the complexities and inconsistencies of English pronunciation through examples of words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently.

    The poem is about the difficulties of learning and pronouncing English words correctly due to inconsistencies in spelling and pronunciation.

    The poem presents many examples of words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently, highlighting the challenges one faces in correctly pronouncing English words.

    ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION POEM – Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;

    “THE CHAOS”
    Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
    Dearest creature in creation,
    Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
    Study English pronunciation.
    I will teach you in my verse
    Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
    Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and
    Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
    worse.
    Blood and flood are not like food,
    Nor is mould like should and would.
    I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
    Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
    Viscous, viscount, load and broad, (vye-
    Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
    count)
    So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
    Toward, to forward, to reward.
    And your pronunciation’s OK
    Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
    When you correctly say croquet,
    Dies and diet, lord and word,
    Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
    Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
    Friend and fiend, alive and live.
    (Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
    Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
    And enamour rhyme with hammer.
    Now I surely will not plague you
    With such words as plaque and ague. (EY-
    River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
    gue)
    Doll and roll and some and home.
    But be careful how you speak:
    Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
    Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
    Neither does devour with clangour.
    Cloven, oven, how and low,
    Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
    Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
    Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
    Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
    Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
    Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
    And then singer, ginger, linger,
    Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
    Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and
    Exiles, similes, and reviles;
    gauge,
    Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
    Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
    Solar, mica, war and far;
    Query does not rhyme with very,
    One, anemone, Balmoral,
    Nor does fury sound like bury.
    Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Sea, idea, Korea, area,
    Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
    Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
    Though the differences seem little, Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
    We say actual but victual.
    Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Compare alien with Italian,
    Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Dandelion and battalion.
    Sally with ally, yea, ye,
    Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
    Dull, bull, and George ate late.
    Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Say aver, but ever, fever,
    Science, conscience, scientific. Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
    Heron, granary, canary.
    Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Crevice and device and aerie.
    Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
    We say hallowed, but allowed, Face, but preface, not efface.
    People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
    Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
    Mark the differences, moreover, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
    Between mover, cover, clover;
    Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Ear, but earn and wear and tear
    Chalice, but police and lice; Do not rhyme with here but ere.
    Seven is right, but so is even,
    Camel, constable, unstable, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
    Principle, disciple, label. Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
    Petal, panel, and canal, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
    Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
    Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
    Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Is a paling stout and spikey?
    Senator, spectator, mayor. Won’t it make you lose your wits,
    Tour, but our and succour, four. Writing groats and saying grits?
    Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
    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!!!

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