Original

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;

Queer, fair seer, 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 is written);

Made has not the sound of bade,

Say, said, pay, laid but not 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, receipts, shoe, poem, toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,

Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore

Typhoid, measles, topsail, 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 khaki

Discount, Viscount, load, and broad.

Toward, to forward, to reward.

Right! Your pronunciation's O.K.

Transcription

d ɪ ə ɾ ə s t k ɾ i ː ʈ ʃ ə i n k ɾ i e i ʃ ə n

s t ʌ d i ː i ŋ ɪ ŋ l ɪ ʃ p r ə n ʊ n s i e i ʃ ə n

a i w i l t i ː ʈ ʃ j u ː i n m a i v ɜ ː s

s a ʊ n z l a i k k ɔ ː p s k ɔ ː h ɔ ː s ə n d w ɜ ː s

a i w i l k i ː p j u ː s u z i b i z i

m e i k j ɔ ː h e d w i ð h i ː t ɡ ɾ ə ʊ d i z i ː

t i ə i n a i j ɔ ː d r e s j ə l t e ə

k w i ə f e ə s i ə h i ə m a i p r e ə

p r e i k ə n s ə ʊ l j ɔ ː l ʌ v i ŋ p ə ʊ ə t

m e i k m a i k ə ʊ t l ʊ k n j u ː d i ə s ə ʊ ( w ) i t

ʤ ʌ s t k ə m p e ə h a ː t b i ə d ə n d h ɜ ː d

d a i z ə n d d a i ə t l ɔ ː d a n d w ɜ ː d

s ɔ ː d ə n d s w ɔ ː d r i t e i n ə n d b r i t ə n

m a i n d ð ə l æ t ə h a ʊ i t i z r i t ə n

m e i d h ə z n ɒ t ð ə s a ʊ n d ə v b æ d

s e i s e d p e i l e i d b ʌ t n ɒ t p l æ d

n a ʊ a i ʃ ɔ ː l i w i l n ɒ t p l e i g j u

w i ð s ʌ ʈ ʃ w ɜ ː d z ə z v e i g ə n d e i g j u

b ʌ t b i ː k e ə f ʊ l h a ʊ j u s p i ː k

s e i g ʌ ʃ b ʊ ʃ s t e i k s t r i ː k b r e i k b l i ː k

p r i ː v i ə s p r e ʃ ə s f ʊ k ʃ i ə v a i ə

r e s i p i ː p a i p s t ʌ n s ə l k w a i ə

w ə ʊ v ə n ʌ v ə n h a ʊ ə n d l ə ʊ

s k r i p t r i s i ː t s ʃ u ː p ə ʊ i m t ə ʊ

h i ə m i ː s e i d i v ɔ i d ə v t r i k ə r i

d ɔ ː t ə l a ː f t ə ˑ n d t e p s i k a r i

t a i f ɔ i d m i ː z ə l z t ɒ p s ə l a i l z

e k s a i l z s i m i l i ː z r i v a i l z

h ə ʊ l i h ɒ l i s i g n ə l s a i n i ŋ

t e m z i k s æ m i n i ŋ k ə m b a ɪ n i ŋ

s k ɒ l ə v i k ə ə n d s i g a ː

s ə ʊ l ə m a i k ə w ɔ ː ( r ) ə n d f a ː

f r ə m d i z a i ə d ə z a i r ə b ( ə ) l

ə d m a i ɾ ə b ( ə ) l f r ə m ə d m a i ə

l ʌ ɱ b ə p l ʌ m ə b i ə b ʌ t b r i ə r

t ɒ p ʃ ə m b r uː ə m r i n a ʊ n b ʌ t n ə ʊ n

n ɒ l i ʤ d ʌ n l ə ʊ n g ɒ n n ʌ n t ə ʊ n

w ʌ n æ n e m o n i b æ l m ɒ r ə l

k i ʈ ʃ i n l i ʈ ʃ ə n l ɔ ː n d r i l ɒ r ə l

g ɜ ː t r u ː d ʤ ɜ ː m ə n w i n d ə n d m a i n d

s i ː n m e l p ɒ m ə n i m æ n k a i n d

t ɔ ː t ə s t ɜ ː k w ɔ i z ʃ æ m w ʌ l e ð ə

r i ː d i ŋ r e d i ŋ h i ː ð ə n h e ð ə

ð i s f ə n e t i k l æ b ə r i n ɵ

g i v z m ɒ s g r ə ʊ z b r ʊ k b r ə ʊ ʈ ʃ n a i n θ p l i n θ

b i l e t d ʌ z n ɒ t e n d l a i k b a l e i

b u ː k e i w ɒ l i t m æ l i ʈ ʃ æ l e i

b l ʌ d ə n d f l ʌ d a ː n ɒ t l a i k f ʊ d

n ɔ ː ( r ) i z m ə ʊ l d l a i k ʃ ʊ d ə n d w u d

b æ n k w i t i z n ɒ t n ɪ ɘ l i ː p a ː k e i

w i ʈ ʃ i z s e d t ə r a i m w i ð k a ː k i

d i s k a ʊ n t v i s k a ʊ n t l ə ʊ d ə n d b r ɔ ː d

t ə w ə ː d z t ə f ɔ ː w ə d t ə r i w ɔ ː d

r a i t j ɔ ː p r ə n ʊ n s i e i ʃ ə n z ə ʊ k e i