Hello Steve Lamb,
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 07:54:26 -0700 GMT your local time,
which was Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 9:54:26 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 7:49:01 AM, Allie wrote:
>> True. We take our understanding of it for granted. :-)
> English is tough stuff!
> 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 and heart grow dizzy.
> Tear in eye, your dress will tear,
> so shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
> When you correctly say croquet.
> rounded, wounded, grieve and sleeve,
> scenic, Arabic, pacific,
> science, conscience, scientific,
> tour, but our, and succour, four,
> gas and alas and Arkansas.
> Sea, idea, guinea, area,
> psalm, Maria, but malaria;
> youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
> neither does devour with clangour;
> soul but foul, and gaunt but aunt,
> font, front, wont; want, grand and grant;
> shows, goes, does; now first say finger,
> and then singer, ginger, linger;
> real, zeal, mauve, gauze, and gauge,
> marriage, foliage, mirage, age.
> Query does not rhyme with very,
> neither does fury sound like bury,
> dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth,
> job, Job, bosom, oath;
> though the difference seems little,
> we say actual but victual;
> refer does not rhyme with "deafer,"
> foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer;
> dull bull; and George, ate, late;
> mint, pint, senate and sedate,
> barn but earn, and wear and tear
> do not rhyme with "here" and "ere."
> Seven is right, but so is even,
> hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen;
> monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
> ask, grasp, wasp; and cork and work;
> doctrine, turpentine, marine;
> dandelion with battalion;
> sally with ally, yea, ye,
> eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay;
> pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
> Is a paling stout and spikey?
> Won't it make you lose your wits
> writing groats and saying grits!
> Author unknown...
> http://reality.sgi.com/relph/humor/english.html
> "Found in _Design Engineering_ magazine, January, 1991:
> 'It is recommended that this be read out loud, as rapidly as
> possible, after downing a couple of bottles of lightly chilled
> Frascati:
> _Hints On Pronunciation For Foreigners_
> I take it you already know
> Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
> Others may stumble, but not you
> On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
> Well done, and now you wish perhaps
> To learn of less familiar traps?
> Beware of heard, a drreadful word,
> That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
> And dead, it's said like bed, not bead,
> For goodness sake, don't call it deed.
> Watch out for meat and great and threat,
> They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
> A moth is not a moth in mother
> Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
> And here is not a match for there
> Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
> And then there's does and rose and loose
> Just look them up, and goose and choose
> And cork and work and card and ward
> And font and front and word and sword
> And do and go and thwart and cart,
> Come on, I've hardly made a start!
> A dreadful language? Man alive!
> I'd mastered it when I was five.'"
will show this o my 10 year old daughter(g)
Thanks..
Best regards,
tracer
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