ECOLE NATIONALE POLYTECHNIQUE
MODULE/ ENGLISH
YEAR/ 2ND
1) Dearest creature in creation,
2) Study English pronunciation.
3) I will teach you in my verse
4) Sounds like corpse, corps,
horse, and worse.
5) I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
6) Make your head with heat
grow dizzy.
7) Tear in eye, your dress will
tear.
8) So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
9) Just compare heart, beard, and
heard,
10)Dies and diet, lord and word,
11)Sword and sward, retain and
Britain.
12)(Mind the latter, how it's
written.)
13)Now I surely will not plague
you
14)With such words as plaque and
ague.
15)But be careful how you speak:
16)Say break and steak, but bleak
and streak;
17)Cloven, oven, how and low,
18)Script, receipt, show, poem,
and toe.
19)Hear me say, devoid of
trickery,
20)Daughter, laughter, and
Terpsichore,
21)Typhoid, measles, topsails,
aisles,
22)Exiles, similes, and reviles;
23)Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
24)Solar, mica, war and far;
25)One, anemone, Balmoral,
26)Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
27)Gertrude, German, wind and
mind,
28)Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
29)Billet does not rhyme with
ballet,
30)Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
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31)Blood and flood are not like
food,
32)Nor is mould like should and
would.
33)Viscous, viscount, load and
broad,
34)Toward, to forward, to reward.
35)And your pronunciation's OK
36)When you correctly say
croquet,
37)Rounded, wounded, grieve and
sieve,
38)Friend and fiend, alive and live.
39)Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
40)And enamour rhymes with
hammer.
41)River, rival, tomb, bomb,
comb,
42)Doll and roll and some and
home.
43)Stranger does not rhyme with
anger,
44)Neither does devour with
clangour.
45)Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
46)Font, front, wont, want, grand,
and grant,
47)Shoes, goes, does. Now first
say finger,
48)And then singer, ginger, linger,
49)Real, zeal, mauve, gauze,
gouge and gauge,
50)Marriage, foliage, mirage, and
age.
51)Query does not rhyme with
very,
52)Nor does fury sound like bury.
53)Dost, lost, post and doth,
cloth, loth.
54)Job, nob, bosom, transom,
oath.
55)Though the differences seem
little,
56)We say actual but victual.
ECOLE NATIONALE POLYTECHNIQUE November 2022
MODULE/ ENGLISH Series: 8
YEAR/ 2ND Adapted by: Dr.Bouayed M.

57)Refer does not rhyme with 90)Crevice and device and aerie.
deafer. 91)Face, but preface, not efface.
58)Foeffer does, and zephyr, 92)Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass,
heifer. bass.
59)Mint, pint, senate and sedate; 93)Large, but target, gin, give,
60)Dull, bull, and George ate late. verging,
61)Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, 94)Ought, out, joust and scour,
62)Science, conscience, scientific. scourging.
63)Liberty, library, heave and 95)Ear, but earn and wear and
heaven, tear
64)Rachel, ache, moustache, 96)Do not rhyme with here but
eleven. ere.
65)We say hallowed, but allowed, 97)Seven is right, but so is even,
66)People, leopard, towed, but 98)Hyphen, roughen, nephew
vowed. Stephen,
67)Mark the differences, 99)Monkey, donkey, Turk and
moreover, jerk,
68)Between mover, cover, clover; 100) Ask, grasp, wasp, and
69)Leeches, breeches, wise, cork and work.
precise, 101) Pronunciation -- think of
70)Chalice, but police and lice; Psyche!
71)Camel, constable, unstable, 102) Is a paling stout and
72)Principle, disciple, label. spikey?
73)Petal, panel, and canal, 103) Won't it make you lose
74)Wait, surprise, plait, promise, your wits,
pal. 104) Writing groats and
75)Worm and storm, chaise, saying grits?
chaos, chair, 105) It's a dark abyss or
tunnel:
76)Senator, spectator, mayor.
106) Strewn with stones,
77)Tour, but our and succour,
stowed, solace, gunwale,
four.
107) Islington and Isle of
78)Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Wight,
79)Sea, idea, Korea, area,
108) Housewife, verdict and
80)Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
indict.
81)Youth, south, southern,
109) Finally, which rhymes
cleanse and clean.
with enough?
82)Doctrine, turpentine, marine. 110) Though, through,
83)Compare alien with Italian, plough, or dough, or cough?
84)Dandelion and battalion. 111) Hiccough has the sound
85)Sally with ally, yea, ye, of cup.
86)Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. 112) My advice is give it up!
87)Say aver, but ever, fever,
88)Neither, leisure, skein,
deceiver.
89)Heron, granary, canary.