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    smile, and the world smiles with you...

    Dearest creature in creation
    Study English pronunciation
    I will teach you in this verse
    Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse
    I will keep you, Suzy, busy
    Make you head with heat go Dizzy
    Tear in eye, your dress will tear

    Just compare heart, beard and heard
    Dies and diet, lord and word
    Sword and sward, retain and Britain
    (Mind that latter, and how it's written)
    Now I surely will not plague you
    with words such as plague and ague.
    But be careful how you speak
    say break and steak, bleak and streak
    Cloven, oven, how and low
    Script, receipt, show, poem and toe.

    Finally, which rhymes with enough-
    though, through, plough or dough, or cough?
    Hiccouch has the sound of cup.
    Oh, bother. I advise you: give up!!

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    Re: smile, and the world smiles with you...

    Quote Originally Posted by Ceroc Jock
    Dearest creature in creation
    Study English pronunciation
    I will teach you in this verse
    Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse
    I will keep you, Suzy, busy
    Make you head with heat go Dizzy
    Tear in eye, your dress will tear

    Just compare heart, beard and heard
    Dies and diet, lord and word
    Sword and sward, retain and Britain
    (Mind that latter, and how it's written)
    Now I surely will not plague you
    with words such as plague and ague.
    But be careful how you speak
    say break and steak, bleak and streak
    Cloven, oven, how and low
    Script, receipt, show, poem and toe.

    Finally, which rhymes with enough-
    though, through, plough or dough, or cough?
    Hiccouch has the sound of cup.
    Oh, bother. I advise you: give up!!
    I like that!

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    Re: smile, and the world smiles with you...

    sounds like the story of my life...
    english pronounciation drives me nuts!!!

    Especially the 'i', 'a', 'y', 'ea' 'e' etc... if there's several of them in one word and you all get them wrong , you just have no chance of being understood....

    sometimes I think I should stop bother and just go for a full thick french accent, and make no effort whatsoever on pronounciation. For some reason that I'll never understand, guys here think the french accent is cute.
    and with all my attemps not to sound too french, I end up sounding dutch/german/swedish.

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    Re: smile, and the world smiles with you...

    Quote Originally Posted by Caro
    e... english pronounciation drives me nuts!!! ...
    It is not English pronounciation that is the problem, it is foreign spelling. Spoken language preceded written language. Each language developed its own method of writing down the spoken word. When the various words were imported into English they tended to bring their foreign spelling with them.

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    Re: smile, and the world smiles with you...

    Quote Originally Posted by bigdjiver
    It is not English pronounciation that is the problem, it is foreign spelling. Spoken language preceded written language. Each language developed its own method of writing down the spoken word. When the various words were imported into English they tended to bring their foreign spelling with them.
    I would suggest that a bigger problem is the changing pronunciation of the English language. Spellings linger on long after the pronunciation of the word has changed, so that what was once perfectly sensible and phonetic spelling now makes pronunciation hard for non-native speakers.

    Everyone should learn Welsh instead - Welsh spelling is totally phonetic

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    Re: smile, and the world smiles with you...

    My friend, grab yourself a big cushion
    As we study English pronunciation
    I will show you during this verse
    Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse
    I will keep you, dear Suzy, so busy
    Make your head, with heat, go Dizzy
    Tear in your eye, your dress will tear
    Where, in frustration, you'll pull out your hair

    Just compare heart, beard and heard
    Dies and diet, lord and word
    Sword and sward, retain and Britain
    (Mind that latter now: note how it's written)
    I will desperately try not to plague you
    with words such as plague and ague.
    But be mindful: for how would you speak?
    If you said break and steak, bleak and streak
    Cloven, oven, how and low
    Script, receipt, show, poem and toe.

    Finally, which rhymes with enough-
    though, through, plough or dough, or cough?
    Hiccouch has the sound of cup.
    Oh, bother. I advise you: give up!!
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    this was someone else's work. I was challenged to rewrite it so that it scanned a little better.

    Any good??

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