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THE CHAOS Dearest creature in creation

Solar, mica, war and far.

Studying English pronunciation,

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

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; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! Just compare heart, hear 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: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak , Previous, precious, fuchsia, via Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir; Woven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. Say, expecting fraud and trickery: Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles, Missiles, similes, reviles. Wholly, holly, signal, signing, Same, examining, but mining, Scholar, vicar, and cigar,

Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier, Topsham, brougham, renown, but known, Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone, One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel. Gertrude, German, wind and wind, Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind, Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather, Reading, Reading, heathen, heather. This phonetic labyrinth Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth. Have you ever yet endeavoured To pronounce revered and severed, Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul, Peter, petrol and patrol? 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 exactly rhymes with khaki. Discount, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward, Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet? Right! Your pronunciation's OK. Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Is your r correct in higher?

Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia.

Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it",

Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot,

But it is not hard to tell

Buoyant, minute, but minute.

Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall.

Say abscission with precision,

Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,

Now: position and transition;

Timber, climber, bullion, lion,

Would it tally with my rhyme

Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,

If I mentioned paradigm?

Senator, spectator, mayor,

Twopence, threepence, tease are easy,

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour

But cease, crease, grease and greasy?

Has the a of drachm and hammer.

Cornice, nice, valise, revise,

Pussy, hussy and possess,

Rabies, but lullabies.

Desert, but desert, address.

Of such puzzling words as nauseous,

Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants

Rhyming well with cautious, tortious,

Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants.

You'll envelop lists, I hope,

Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb,

In a linen envelope.

Cow, but Cowper, some and home.

Would you like some more? You'll have it!

"Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker",

Affidavit, David, davit.

Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",

To abjure, to perjure. Sheik

Making, it is sad but true,

Does not sound like Czech but ache.

In bravado, much ado.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,

Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.

Neither does devour with clangour.

We say hallowed, but allowed,

Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt,

People, leopard, towed but vowed.

Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant.

Mark the difference, moreover,

Arsenic, specific, scenic,

Between mover, plover, Dover.

Relic, rhetoric, hygienic.

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close,

Chalice, but police and lice,

Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.

Camel, constable, unstable,

Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle,

Principle, disciple, label.

Make the latter rhyme with eagle.

Petal, penal, and canal,

Mind! Meandering but mean,

Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal,

Valentine and magazine.

Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit

And I bet you, dear, a penny,

You say mani-(fold) like many,

Tripod, menial, denial,

Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier,

Troll and trolley, realm and ream,

Tier (one who ties), but tier.

Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.

Arch, archangel; pray, does erring

Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely

Rhyme with herring or with stirring?

May be made to rhyme with Raleigh,

Prison, bison, treasure trove,

But you're not supposed to say

Treason, hover, cover, cove,

Piquet rhymes with sobriquet.

Perseverance, severance. Ribald

Had this invalid invalid

Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled.

Worthless documents? How pallid,

Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw,

How uncouth he, couchant, looked,

Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw.

When for Portsmouth I had booked!

Don't be down, my own, but rough it,

Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite,

And distinguish buffet, buffet;

Paramour, enamoured, flighty,

Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon,

Episodes, antipodes,

Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.

Acquiesce, and obsequies.

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, pours and paws,

Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,

Rhyming with the pronoun yours;

Wan, sedan and artisan.

Nor are proper names included,

The th will surely trouble you

Though I often heard, as you did,

More than r, ch or w.

Funny rhymes to unicorn,

Say then these phonetic gems:

Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan.

Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.

No, my maiden, coy and comely,

Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham,

I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley.

There are more but I forget 'em-

No. Yet Froude compared with proud

Wait! I've got it: Anthony,

Is no better than McLeod.

Lighten your anxiety.

But mind trivial and vial,

The archaic word albeit

Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;

Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

With and forthwith, one has voice,

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,

One has not, you make your choice.

Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Shoes, goes, does *. Now first say: finger;

Compare alien with Italian,

Then say: singer, ginger, linger.

Dandelion with battalion,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge,

Rally with ally; yea, ye,

Marriage, foliage, mirage, age,

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

Hero, heron, query, very,

Say aver, but ever, fever,

Parry, tarry fury, bury,

Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.

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

Never guess-it is not safe,

Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.

We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.

Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners,

Starry, granary, canary,

Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners

Crevice, but device, and eyrie,

Holm you know, but noes, canoes,

Face, but preface, then grimace,

Puisne, truism, use, to use?

Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.

Though the difference seems little,

Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,

We say actual, but victual,

Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging;

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

Ear, but earn; and ere and tear

Put, nut, granite, and unite.

Do not rhyme with here but heir.

Reefer does not rhyme with deafer,

Mind the o of off and often

Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

Which may be pronounced as orphan,

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

With the sound of saw and sauce;

Hint, pint, senate, but sedate.

Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.

Gaelic, Arabic, pacific,

Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?

Science, conscience, scientific;

Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.

Tour, but our, dour, succour, four,

Respite, spite, consent, resent.

Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

Liable, but Parliament.

Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit,

Seven is right, but so is even,

Next omit, which differs from it

Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,

Bona fide, alibi

Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,

Gyrate, dowry and awry.

Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work.

Sea, idea, guinea, area,

A of valour, vapid vapour,

S of news (compare newspaper), G of gibbet, gibbon, gist, I of antichrist and grist, Differ like diverse and divers, Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers. Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll, Polish, Polish, poll and poll. Pronunciation-think of Psyche!Is a paling, stout and spiky. 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 rhymes with enough, Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough?? Hiccough has the sound of sup... My advice is: GIVE IT UP!...