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Say in sounds correct and sterling Please don't monkey with the geyser,
Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling. Don't peel 'taters with my razor,
Evil, devil, mezzotint, Rather say in accents pure:
Mind the z! (A gentle hint.) Nature, stature and mature.
Now you need not pay attention Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly,
To such sounds as I don't mention, Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly,
Sounds like pores, pause, Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,
pours and paws, Wan, sedan and artisan.
Rhyming with the pronoun yours;
The th will surely trouble you
Nor are proper names included, More than r, ch or w.
Though I often heard, as you did, Say then these phonetic gems:
Funny rhymes to unicorn, Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.
Yes, you know
them, Vaughan and Strachan. Thompson, Chatham, Waltham,
Streatham,
No, my maiden, coy and comely, There are more but I forget 'em-
I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley. Wait! I've got it: Anthony,
No. Yet Froude compared with proud Lighten your anxiety.
Is no better than McLeod.
The archaic word albeit
But mind trivial and vial, Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;
Tripod, menial, denial, With and forthwith, one has voice,
Troll and trolley, realm and ream, One has not, you make your choice.
Schedule, mischief,
schism, and scheme. Shoes, goes, does *. Now first say: finger;
Then say: singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge, Say aver, but ever, fever,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age, Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess-it is not safe,
Hero, heron, query, very, We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.
Parry, tarry fury, bury,
Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth, Starry, granary, canary,
Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath. Crevice, but device, and eyrie,
Face, but preface, then grimace,
Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners, Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners
Holm you know, but noes, canoes, Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,
Puisne, truism, use, to use? Ought, oust, joust, and scour,
but scourging;
Though the difference seems little, Ear, but earn; and ere and tear
We say actual, but victual, Do not rhyme with here but heir.
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight,
height, Mind the o of off and often
Put, nut, granite, and unite. Which may be pronounced as orphan,
With the sound of saw and sauce;
Reefer does not rhyme with deafer, Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late, Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?
Hint, pint, senate, but sedate. Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.
Respite, spite, consent, resent.
Gaelic, Arabic, pacific, Liable, but Parliament.
Science, conscience, scientific;
Tour, but our, dour, succour, four, Seven is right, but so is even,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit, Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work.
Next omit, which differs from it
Bona fide, alibi A of valour, vapid vapour,
Gyrate, dowry and awry. S of news (compare newspaper),
G of gibbet, gibbon, gist,
Sea, idea, guinea, area, I of antichrist and grist,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and cl Differ like diverse and divers,
ean, Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll,
Polish, Polish, poll and poll.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion, Pronunciation-think of Psyche!-
Rally with ally; yea, ye, Is a paling, stout and spiky.
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!
Won't it make you lose your wits
Writing groats and saying "grits"?