1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,560 Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:17,640 I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, core, horse and worse. 3 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:22,040 I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. 4 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:28,680 Tear in eye, your dress will tear, So shall I, oh, hear my prayer. 5 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:35,200 Just compare heart, beard and herd, Dice and diet, lord and word, 6 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:42,040 Sword and sword, retain and Britain, Mind the letter how it's written. 7 00:00:42,040 --> 00:00:47,360 Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and aque, 8 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:53,200 But be careful how you speak, Say break and stake, but bleak and streak. 9 00:00:53,200 --> 00:01:01,840 Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, recede, show, poem and tow, 10 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,800 Here may say devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter and tubsickery, 11 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:14,080 Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes and reviles, 12 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:20,920 Scholar, vicar and cigar, solar, mica, War and far, 13 00:01:20,920 --> 00:01:28,320 One, anemone, Balmoral, kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel, 14 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:35,880 Gertrude, German, wind and wind, Sin, melpomene, mankind. 15 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:43,720 Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. 16 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:49,040 Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mood like chute and wood, 17 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:57,800 Viscous, vicount, lowed and broad, Toward to forward to reward, 18 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,240 And your pronunciations, okay, When you correctly say croquet, 19 00:02:02,240 --> 00:02:08,760 Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and limp, 20 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:15,360 Ivy, privy, famous, clemme, And anemone, rhyme with hammer, 21 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:22,680 River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Dole and roll, and some in home. 22 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:28,360 Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangor, 23 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:38,360 Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, want, grand and grand, 24 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:45,280 Shoes, gauze, dars, now first say finger, And then zinger, ginger, linger, 25 00:02:45,280 --> 00:02:56,720 Reel, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. 26 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:01,680 Quarry does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like berry, 27 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:11,440 Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loath, Job, nub, bosom, transom, oath, 28 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:17,680 Though the differences seem little, We say actual, but… 29 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:24,040 Refer does not rhyme with differ, Refer, doth, and ziffer, 30 00:03:24,040 --> 00:03:32,640 Heifer, mint, pine, senate, and sedate, Dull, bull, and George, eight late, 31 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:37,880 Cynic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific, 32 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:45,040 Liberty, library, heave, and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven, 33 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:51,480 We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, toad, but vowed. 34 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,920 Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover, 35 00:03:55,920 --> 00:04:01,680 Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Cellis, but police analyze, 36 00:04:01,680 --> 00:04:08,360 Camel, constable, unstable, Principal, disciple, label, petal, panel, 37 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:12,800 and canal, Weight, surprise, plate, promise, pal, 38 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:19,880 Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor, tour, 39 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:28,320 but hour, and secour, four, Gas, alas, and Arkansas, sea, idea, career, 40 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:36,440 Psalm, mariah, but malaria, Youth, south, southern, cleanse, and clean, 41 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:42,840 Doctrine, turpentine, marine, Campere, ellen, with Italian, 42 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:51,800 Dandelion, and battalion, Sally, with a lie, yea, ye, I, I, 43 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:58,760 A, I, we, and key, Say, a fur, but ever, fever, 44 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:04,120 Neither laser, skein, deceiver, Heron, granary, canary, 45 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:10,760 Crevice and device, and airy, Face, but preface, not a face, 46 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:19,840 Flem, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass, Bass, large, but target, gene, 47 00:05:19,840 --> 00:05:31,600 Give, verging, ought, out, joust, and scour, Scourging, ear, but own, and wear, and tear, 48 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:37,320 Do not rhyme with here, but air. 49 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:43,320 Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, ruffen, nephew, steven, 50 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:49,800 Monkey, donkey, turk, and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork, and work, 51 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:56,080 Pronunciation, think of psyche, Is a paling stout and spiky, 52 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,640 Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing rhodes and saying grids? 53 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:06,080 It's a dark abyss or tunnel, Stroomed with stones, toad, solace, gunwale, 54 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:11,960 Ellington and dial of white, Housewife, verdict, and indict, 55 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:20,480 Finally, which rhymes with enough, Though, through, plough, or doe, or cove? 56 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:42,840 Kick-up has the sound of cup, My advice is to give up.