DEAREST
CREATURE IN CREATION
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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; 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, Holy, holly, signal, signing Same, examining but mining Scholar, vicar, but cigar, Solar, mica, war, and far, From “desire” desirable, admirable from “admire”, 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 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 wood, Nor is mould, like should and could. Banquet is not nearly parquet, Which doesn’t exactly rhyme with khaki. Discount, viscount, load and broad, Towards, to forward, to reward, Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet? Right! Your pronunciation’s
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dɪəɾəst kɾiːtʃə
in kɾieiʃən stʌdiːiŋ ɪŋlɪʃ
prənʊnsieiʃən ai wil tiːtʃ juː in mai vɜːs saʊnz laik kɔːps
kɔː hɔːs
ənd wɜːs ai wil kiːp juː suzi bizi meik jɔː hed wið hiːt
ɡɾəʊ diziː tiə in ai jɔː dres jəl
teə kwiə feə siə hiə mai
preə prei kənsəʊl jɔː
lʌviŋ pəʊət meik mai kəʊt lʊk njuːw
diə səʊ(w) it ʤʌst kəmpeə haːt
biəd ənd hɜːd daiz ənd daiət lɔːd and wɜːd
sɔːd ənd swɔːd
ritein ənd britən maind ðə lætə haʊ it iz ritən meid həz nɒt ðə saʊnd əv bæd sei sed pei leid bʌt nɒt plæd naʊ ai ʃɔːli
wil nɒt pleig ju wið sʌtʃ wɜːdz
əz veig ənd eigju bʌt biː keəfʊl haʊ
ju spiːk sei gʌʃ bʊʃ steik striːk
breik bliːk priːviəs preʃəs
fʊkʃiə vaiə resipiː paip stʊnsei kwaiə wəʊvən ʌvən haʊ
ənd ləʊ skript risiːts ʃuː pəʊim
təʊ hiə miː sei divɔid əv
trikəri dɔːtə laːftəˑnd
tepsikari taifɔid miːzəlz tɒpsəl
ailz eksailz similiːz rivailz həʊli hɒli signəl sainiŋ seim iksæminiŋ bʌt mainiŋ skɒlə vikə bʌt sigaː səʊlə maikə wɔː(r)
ənd faː frəm dizaiə dəzairəb(ə)l ədmaiɾəb(ə)l frəm
ədmaiə lʌɱbə plʌmə biə
bʌt briər tɒpʃəm brau(w)əm rinaʊn
bʌt nəʊn nɒliʤ dʌn ləʊn gɒn
nʌn təʊn wʌn ænemoni bælmɒrəl kitʃin litʃən lɔːndri
lɒrəl gɜːtruːd
ʤɜːmən wind ənd maind siːn melpɒməni mænkaind tɔːtəs tɜːkwɔiz
ʃæmwʌ leðə riːdiŋ rediŋ hiːðən
heðə ðis fənetik læbərinθ givz mɒs grəʊz brʊk
brəʊtʃ nainθ plinθ bilet dʌz nɒt
end laik balei buːkei wɒlit mælit ʃælei blʌd ənd flʌd
aː nɒt laik wʊd nɔː(r) iz məʊld
laik ʃʊd ənd kud bænkwit iz nɒt nɪɘliː paːkei witʃ dʌzənt igsækli
raim wið kaːki diskaʊnt viskaʊnt ləʊd
ənd brɔːd təwəːdz tə fɔːwəd
tə riwɔːd rikəʃeid ənd krɒtʃətiŋ
krəʊkei rait jɔː prənʊnsieiʃənz
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