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The Next Item On The Agenda Is .... *Учить Или Не Учить ???????*

 

If You can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, You will be speakin’ English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After tryin’ the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to readin’ six lines aloud. Try them Yourself!

// вольный перевод на наш (by SGG):
если у Вас получится произнести все слова стихотворения верно, то Вы должно быть говорите лучше, чем 90% натуральных англоговорящих жителей в мире. Кстати, француз после попытки прочесть эти стихи, сказал, что лучше бы его заставили хорошенько попахать полгода, чем прочесть шесть строчек вслух. Попробуйте, а вдруг получится!

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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 letter, how it’s written)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque an’ ague
But be careful how you speak:
Say – break, steak but bleak an’ streak
Cloven, oven, how an’ low
Script, receipt, show, poem an’ toe
Hear me say, devoid of trickery
Daughter, laughter, Terpsichore
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles
Exiles, similes, reviles
Scholar, vicar an’ cigar
Solar, mica, war an’ far
One anemone, Balmoral
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel
Gertrude, German, wind an’ mind
Scene, Melpomene an’ mankind
Billet does not rhyme with ballet
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet
Blood an’ flood are not like food
Nor is mould like should and would
Viscous, viscount, load an’ broad
Toward, forward an’ reward
An’ your pronunciation’s Ok
When you correctly say croquet
Rounded, wounded, grieve an’ sieve
Friend an’ fiend, alive an’ live
Ivy, privy, famous, clamour
An’ enamour rhyme with hammer
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb
Doll an’ roll, an’ some, an’ home
Stranger does not rhyme with anger
Neither does devour with clangour
Souls, but foul, haunt, but aunt
Font, front, wont, want, grand an’ grant
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger
An’ then singer, ginger, linger
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge, gauge
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age
Query does not rhyme with very
Nor does fury sound like bury
Dost, lost, post an’ doth, cloth, loth
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath
Though the different seem little
We say actual but victual
Refer does not rhyme with deafer
Foeffer does an’ zephyr, heifer
Mint, pint, senate an’ sedate
Dull, bull an’ George ate late
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific
Science, conscience, scientific
Liberty, library, heave an’ 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 an’ canal
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal
Worm an’ storm, chaise, chaos, chair
Senator, spectator, mayor
Tour but our an’ succour, four
Gas, alas an’ Arkansas
Sea, idea, Korea, area
Psalm, Maria but malaria
Youth, south, southern, cleanse an’ clean
Doctrine, turpentine, marine
Compare alien with Italian
Dandelion an’ battalion
Sally with ally, yea, ye
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey an’ key
Say aver, but ever, fever
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver
Heron, granary, canary
Crevice an’ device, an’ aerie
Face, but preface not efface
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass
Large, but target, gin, give, verging
Ought, out, joust an’ scour, scourging
Ear, but earn an’ wear, an’ tear
Do not rhyme with here an’ ere
Seven is right, but so is even
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen
Monkey, donkey, Turk an’ jerk
Ask, grasp, wasp an’ cork, an’ work
Pronunciation (think of Psyache!)
Is a paling stout an’ spikey?
Won’t it make You lose Your wits
Writing groats an’ sayin’ grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale
Islington an’ Isle of Wight
Housewife, verdict an’ indict
Finally, which rhyme 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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