awesome poem, that is really hard to pronounce!

1b00TEST YOUR SKILL02b02br
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01i00Once you've learned to correctly pronounce every word in the following poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. If you find it tough going, do not despair, you are not alone.02i02br
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00Dearest creature in creation,02br
00Study English pronunciation.02br
00I will teach you in my verse02br
00Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.02br
00I will keep you, Suzy, busy,02br
00Make your head with heat grow dizzy.02br
00Tear in eye, your dress will tear.02br
00So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. 02br
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00Just compare heart, beard, and heard,02br
00Dies and diet, lord and word,02br
00Sword and sward, retain and Britain.02br
00(Mind the latter, how it's written.)02br
00Now I surely will not plague you02br
00With such words as plaque and ague.02br
00But be careful how you speak:02br
00Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;02br
00Cloven, oven, how and low,02br
00Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. 02br
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00Hear me say, devoid of trickery,02br
00Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,02br
00Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,02br
00Exiles, similes, and reviles;02br
00Scholar, vicar, and cigar,02br
00Solar, mica, war and far;02br
00One, anemone, Balmoral,02br
00Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;02br
00Gertrude, German, wind and mind,02br
00Scene, Melpomene, mankind. 02br
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00Billet does not rhyme with ballet,02br
00Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.02br
00Blood and flood are not like food,02br
00Nor is mould like should and would.02br
00Viscous, viscount, load and broad,02br
00Toward, to forward, to reward.02br
00And your pronunciation's OK02br
00When you correctly say croquet,02br
00Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,02br
00Friend and fiend, alive and live.02br
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00Ivy, privy, famous; clamour02br
00And enamour rhyme with hammer.02br
00River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,02br
00Doll and roll and some and home.02br
00Stranger does not rhyme with anger,02br
00Neither does devour with clangour.02br
00Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,02br
00Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,02br
00Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,02br
00And then singer, ginger, linger,02br
00Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,02br
00Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. 02br
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00Query does not rhyme with very,02br
00Nor does fury sound like bury.02br
00Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.02br
00Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.02br
00Though the differences seem little,02br
00We say actual but victual.02br
00Refer does not rhyme with deafer.02br
00Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.02br
00Mint, pint, senate and sedate;02br
00Dull, bull, and George ate late.02br
00Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,02br
00Science, conscience, scientific.02br
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00Liberty, library, heave and heaven,02br
00Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.02br
00We say hallowed, but allowed,02br
00People, leopard, towed, but vowed.02br
00Mark the differences, moreover,02br
00Between mover, cover, clover;02br
00Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,02br
00Chalice, but police and lice;02br
00Camel, constable, unstable,02br
00Principle, disciple, label.02br
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00Petal, panel, and canal,02br
00Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.02br
00Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,02br
00Senator, spectator, mayor.02br
00Tour, but our and succour, four.02br
00Gas, alas, and Arkansas.02br
00Sea, idea, Korea, area,02br
00Psalm, Maria, but malaria.02br
00Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.02br
00Doctrine, turpentine, marine.02br
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00Compare alien with Italian,02br
00Dandelion and battalion.02br
00Sally with ally, yea, ye,02br
00Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.02br
00Say aver, but ever, fever,02br
00Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.02br
00Heron, granary, canary.02br
00Crevice and device and aerie.02br
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00Face, but preface, not efface.02br
00Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.02br
00Large, but target, gin, give, verging,02br
00Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.02br
00Ear, but earn and wear and tear02br
00Do not rhyme with here but ere.02br
00Seven is right, but so is even,02br
00Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,02br
00Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,02br
00Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.02br
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00Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!02br
00Is a paling stout and spikey?02br
00Won't it make you lose your wits,02br
00Writing groats and saying grits?02br
00It's a dark abyss or tunnel:02br
00Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,02br
00Islington and Isle of Wight,02br
00Housewife, verdict and indict.02br
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00Finally, which rhymes with enough --02br
00Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?02br
00Hiccough has the sound of cup.02br
00My advice is to give up!!!0-