Translation into phonemes
Dearest Creature in creation
‘diᵊrest ‘kri:tᶴᵊ in kri:’eiᶴᵊn
Studying English pronunciation,
‘stᶺdijiᵑ ‘iᵑgliᶴ prᵊnᶺnsi’eiᶴᶟn,
I will teach you in my verse
ai wil ti:tᶴ ju: in mai vᵊ:s
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
saund laik kᴐ:ps, kᴐ:z, hᴐ:s, wᵊ:s.
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
ai wil ki:p ju:, suzi, bizi,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
meik juᵊ: hed wiᶿ hi:t greu ‘dizi;
Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear;
tiᵊ in ai juᵊ: dres ju:l tiᵊ;
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.
kwiᵊ, feᵊ siᵊ, hiᵊ mai prᶟᵊ.
Pray, console your loving poet,
Prei, kᵊn’sᵊul juᵊ: lᶺviᵑ ‘pᵊuit,
Make my coat look new, dear sew it!
Meik mai kᵊut luk nju:. diᵊ sᵊu it!
Just compare heart, beard and heard
dzᶺst kᵊm’pᶟᵊ ha:t, biᵊd ᵆnd hᵊ:d,
Dies and diet, Lord and word
daiz ᵆnd daiᵊt, Lᴐ:d ᵆnd wᵊ:d,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain
sᴐ:d ᵆnd swᴐ:d, ri’tein ᵆnd ‘Britᵊn
(Mind the latter how it is written);
(maind ᵭe ‘lᵆtᵊ hau it is ‘ritn);
Made has not the sound of bade,
Meid has nᴐt ᵭe saund ᴐv bᵆd,
Say, said, pay, laid but not plaid.
Sei, sed, pei, leid bᶺt nᴐt plᵆd.
Now I surely will not plague you
Nau ai ‘ᶴuᵊli wil nᴐt pleig jiu
With such words as vague and ague,
wiᵭ sᶺtᶴ wᵊ:ds ᵆz veig ᵆnd ,
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.