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खाना

अँगूठा

अँग्रेज़

अंदर

अकेला

अकेलापन

अच्छा

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Dearest creature in creation

Studying English pronunciation,

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse

I will keep you, Susy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy

Tear in eye your dress you'll tear,

So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,

Pray, console your loving poet,

Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!

Just compare heart, beard and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain

(Mind the latter, how it's written)

Made has not the sound of bade,

Say said, pay-paid, laid, but plaid

Now I surely will not plague you

With such words as vague and ague,

But be careful how you speak,

Say break, steak, but bleak and streak

Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,

Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir,

Cloven, oven, how and low,

Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe

Hear me say, devoid of trickery:

Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles

Exiles, similes, reviles

Wholly, holly, signal, signing

Thames, examining, combining

Scholar, vicar, and cigar,

Solar, mica, war, and far

From "desire": desirable--admirable from "admire"

Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier

Chatham, brougham, renown, but known

Knowledge, done, but gone and tone,

One, anemone, Balmoral

Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel,

Gertrude, German, wind, and mind

Scene, Melpomene, mankind,

Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,

Reading, reading, heathen, heather

This phonetic labyrinth

Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth

Billet does not end like ballet;

Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet;

Blood and flood are not like food,

Nor is mould like should and would

Banquet is not nearly parquet,

Which is said to rime with "darky"

Viscous, Viscount, load, and broad

Toward, to forward, to reward

And your pronunciation's OK,

When you say correctly: croquet

Rounded, wounded, grieve, and sieve,

Friend and fiend, alive, and live,

Liberty, library, heave, and heaven,

Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven,

We say hallowed, but allowed,

People, leopard, towed, but vowed

Mark the difference, moreover,

Between mover, plover, Dover,

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

Chalice, but police, and lice

Camel, constable, unstable,

Principle, disciple, label,

Petal, penal, and canal,

Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal

Suit, suite, ruin, circuit, conduit,

Rime with "shirk it" and "beyond it"

But it is not hard to tell,

Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall

Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,

Timber, climber, bullion, lion,

Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, and chair,

Senator, spectator, mayor,

Ivy, privy, famous, clamour

And enamour rime with hammer

Pussy, hussy, and possess,

Desert, but dessert, address

Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants

Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,

Doll and roll and some and home

Stranger does not rime with anger

Neither does devour with clangour

Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt

Font, front, won't, want, grand, and grant

Shoes, goes, does, Now first say: finger

And then: singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, and gauge,

Marriage, foliage, mirage, age

Query does not rime with very,

Nor does fury sound like bury

Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth;

Job, Job; blossom, bosom, oath

Though the difference seems little,

We say actual, but victual

Seat, sweat; chaste, caste; Leigh, eight, height;

Put, nut; granite, and unite

Reefer does not rime with deafer,

Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer

Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,

Hint, pint, Senate, but sedate

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,

Science, conscience, scientific,

Tour, but our and succour, four,

Gas, alas, and Arkansas

Sea, idea, guinea, area,

Psalm, Maria, but malaria,

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,

Doctrine, turpentine, marine

Compare alien with Italian,

Dandelion with battalion

Sally with ally, yea, ye,

Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay

Say aver, but ever, fever

Neither, leisure, skein, receiver

Never guess--it is not safe:

We say calves, valves, half, but Ralph

Heron, granary, canary,

Crevice and device, and eyrie,

Face but preface, but efface,

Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass

Large, but target, gin, give, verging,

Ought, out, joust, and scour, but scourging,

Ear but earn, and wear and bear

Do not rime with here, but ere

Seven is right, but so is even,

Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,

Monkey, donkey, clerk, and jerk,

Asp, grasp, wasp, and cork and work

Pronunciation--think of psyche--!

Is a paling, stout and spikey,

Won't it make you lose your wits,

Writing "groats" and saying "grits"?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel,

Strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale,

Islington and Isle of Wight,

Housewife, verdict, and indict!

Don't you think so, reader, rather,

Saying lather, bather, father?

Finally: which rimes with "enough"

Though through, plough, cough, hough, or tough?

Hiccough has the sound of "cup"

My advice is--give it up!