Translation into phonemes

 

Dearest Creature in creation
‘direst ‘kri:tᶴᵊ in kri:’eiᶴᵊ

Studying English pronunciation,

‘stdiji ‘igli prnnsi’eiᶴᶟn, 

I will teach you in my verse      

ai wil ti:t ju: in mai v:s

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.

saund laik kᴐ:ps, kᴐ:z, hᴐ:s, w:s.

I will keep you, Susy, busy,

ai wil ki:p ju:, suzi, bizi,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy;

meik ju: hed wiᶿ hi:t greu ‘dizi;

Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear;

tiin ai ju: dres ju:l ti;

Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

kwi, fesi, hi mai prᶟᵊ.

Pray, console your loving poet,

Prei, kn’sul ju: lvi ‘puit,

Make my coat look new, dear sew it!

Meik mai kut luk nju:. di su it!

 

Just compare heart, beard and heard

dzst km’pᶟᵊ ha:t, bid nd h:d,

Dies and diet, Lord and word

daiz nd dait, Lᴐ:d nd w:d,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain

sᴐ:d nd swᴐ:d, ri’tein nd ‘Britn

(Mind the latter how it is written);

 (maind ᵭe ‘lt hau it is ‘ritn);

Made has not the sound of bade,

Meid has nᴐt ᵭe saund ᴐv bd,

Say, said, pay, laid but not plaid.

Sei, sed, pei, leid bt nt pld.

Now I surely will not plague you

Nau ai ‘uli wil nᴐt pleig jiu

With such words as vague and ague,

wiᵭ st w:ds z veig nd ,

But be careful how you speak,

Say gush, bush, steak, 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, Chambois-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 O.K.