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English Pronunciation!?!

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

Dearest creature in creation 创造,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse [kɔ:ps] 尸体, corps [kɔ:] 军团, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy苏西, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear [tiə].
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard [biəd] 胡须, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward [swɔ:d] 草地, retain [ri'tein] 保持and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague [pleiɡ] 折磨you
With such words as plaque and ague ['eigju:] 打冷颤.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break [breik] and steak, but bleak [bli:k] 荒凉的and streak [stri:k] 条纹;
Cloven 劈开, oven ['ʌvən] 炉, how and low,
Script [skript] 原稿, receipt [ri'si:t], show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid [di'vɔid] 缺乏的of trickery ['trikəri] 欺骗,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore瑟尔西科瑞（司舞蹈和合唱的女神）,
Typhoid, measles ['mi:zlz] 麻疹, topsails上桅帆, aisles通道[ail],
Exiles['eksail] 流犯, similes, and reviles[ri'vail] 辱骂;
Scholar, vicar教区牧师, and cigar,
Solar, mica ['maikə] 云母, war and far;
One, anemone银莲花[ə'neməni], Balmoral巴尔默勒尔堡,
Kitchen, lichen ['laikən] 青苔, laundry, laurel ['lɔrəl] 月桂树;
Gertrude格特鲁德（女子名）, German, wind and mind,
Scene [si:n], Melpomene墨尔波墨（悲剧女神）, mankind.
Billet兵舍does not rhyme with ballet [bæ'lei] 芭蕾舞剧,
Bouquet [bu'kei] 花束, wallet, mallet ['mælit] 木槌, chalet ['ʃælei] 小型度假屋.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould [məuld] 发霉like should and would.
Viscous ['viskəs] 粘性的, viscount ['vaikaunt] 子爵, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet [krəu'kei] 槌球戏,
Rounded, wounded, grieve使悲伤and sieve筛子,
Friend and fiend [fi:nd] 魔鬼, alive and live.
Ivy, privy个人的, famous; clamour喧闹
And enamour [i'næmə] 迷住rhyme with hammer ['hæmə]锤击.
River, rival, tomb [tu:m] 坟墓, bomb轰炸, comb [kəum] 蜂巢,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour [di'vauə] 毁灭with clangour铿锵声.
Souls but foul [faul] 犯规, haunt [hɔ:nt] 作祟but aunt,
Font字体, front, wont [wəunt] 习惯, want, grand [ɡrænd] 豪华的, and grant [ɡrænt] 允许,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve [məuv], gauze, gouge [ɡaudʒ] and gauge [ɡeidʒ] 计量器,
Marriage, foliage ['fəuliidʒ] 叶子, mirage [mi'rɑ:ʒ] 海市蜃楼, and age.
Query ['kwiəri] 疑问does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury ['fjuəri] sound like bury.
Dost [dʌst], lost, post and doth [dʌθ] do的第三人称单数, cloth, loth [ləuθ] .
Job, nob, bosom, transom ['trænsəm气窗, oath [əuθ] 誓言.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual食物.
Refer参考 does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr ['zefə] n. 西风,和风, heifer ['hefə] n. 小母牛.
Mint薄荷, pint [paint] 品脱, senate ['senit] 参议院and sedate [si'deit] 安静的;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic戏剧的, Arabic阿拉伯的, Pacific,
Science, conscience ['kɔnʃəns], scientific.
Liberty, library, heave发出and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed['hæləud] 神圣的, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed [təu] 拖, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover搬家公司, cover, clover四叶草;
Leeches水蛭, breeches臀部, wise, precise,
Chalice ['tʃælis] 圣餐杯, but police and lice虱子;
Camel, constable ['kʌnstəbl] 治安官, unstable,
Principle, disciple [di'saipl] 门徒, label.
Petal, panel嵌板, and canal管道,
Wait, surprise, plait辫状物, promise, pal.
Worm [wə:m] 螺纹and storm [stɔ:m], chaise [ʃeiz] 一种轻马车, chaos, chair,
Senator ['senətə], spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour救援物品, four.
Gas, alas [ə'læs] 唉, and Arkansas阿肯色州.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm [sɑ:m] 圣诗, Maria, but malaria [mə'lєəriə] 疟疾.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse [klenz] 净化and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine松脂油, marine.
Compare alien ['eiljən] 外国的with Italian,
Dandelion蒲公英 and battalion战场.
Sally with ally [ə'lai] 伙伴, yea [jei] 是, ye [ji:],
Eye, I, ay赞成票, aye [ei, ai] 赞成, whey [hwei] 乳清, and key.
Say aver 断言, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure 安逸, skein一束(线或纱), deceiver 欺骗者.
Heron n. 苍鹭, granaryn. 谷仓,谷物仓,谷产丰富的地区, canary n. 金丝雀
Crevice ['krevis] n. (岩石、墙等)裂缝and device and aerie.
Face, but preface ['prefis] 前言, not efface [i'feis] vt. 抹去，抹掉.
Phlegm [flem] 痰, phlegmatic [fleɡ'mætik] 冷淡的, ass, glass, bass [beis] Large, but target, gin n. 杜松子酒v. 开始, give, verging濒临,
Ought, out, joust比赛and scour 腹泻, scourging痛斥.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere 在....之前.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen连字号, roughen变粗糙, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey驴子, Turk土耳其人and jerk蠢人,
Ask, grasp [ɡræsp] 抓住, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche赛克!)
Is a paling stout矮胖子and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits智力,
Writing groats 些许 and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss深渊or tunnel:
Strewn [stru:n] 散播with stones, stowed, solace慰藉, gunwale,
Islington and Isle [ail] 岛of Wight人类,
Housewife, verdict裁定and indict [in'dait] 起诉.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough [plau] 耕, or dough 生面团, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!