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English is Tough Stuff by Innocent English
A poem on the difficulty of pronouncing English
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation — think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough –
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!
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| HOW THANKSGIVING DAY IS CELEBRATED IN YOUR COUNTRY |
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Chusok by Im Miok from Seoul
Thankgiving day is called as Chuseok in Korea. It is a three day holiday celebrated in September. We celebrate Chuseok to honor our ancestors. All Koreans celebrate this festival with their families.
During Chuseok, people in the city usually go home to their provinces. They visit the graves of their ancestors to perform rituals and to offer food.
Various kinds of food are served during this festival. Usually, the dishes are prepared from the season's harvest. One of the most commonly served foods during Chuseok is "songpyeon", a rice cake. Fruits are also common in this time. |
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FEEL FREE TO SHARE YOUR STORIES ...
Thanksgiving is celebrated world over with equal fervor and euphoria.
It conveys the universal feeling of being thankful to a diety for the continuous provisions.
For Christians, it is more of thanking God the Father who is the source of all the blessings while
for the Budhists it is more of honoring the dead ancestors.
Each country has its unique way of celebrating THANKSGIVING DAY. So, we open this forum to everyone
all over the world to share how THANKSGIVING DAY is being celebrated in their own country.
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11/10/2008
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Festa La Fraga in Galicia by Xaquin Perez
In Galicia, every 25th of July a forest party is held to celebrate our National day. It is a two-day party where we all camp in the forest, eat foods like barbeque and other picnic foods. Concerts, games and drinking sprees as well as dancing characterize the celebration. After the party, people bathe in the river to refresh themselves after a long day non-stop merry making. This Forest party has been celebrated by the Galicians for more than a hundred years now. This is one celebration that Galicians don't miss the fun. Watch this video for you to understand how we do it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obggBoDb3ew
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THANKSGIVING DAY IN GOA by Kumar Rajid
Thanksgiving Day Celebration in Goa
Thanksgiving is primarily celebrated in the state of Goa, with a different name.
Thanksgiving is popularly known as 'Ladin' or 'Ladainha' in India.
'Ladin' literally means a litany to the Virgin Mary. During the Thanksgiving ritual,
people thank God for all the material and spiritual benefits. The Thanksgiving function is sponsored by a different person every year
who either seeks benefits or has been lucky enough to have God's special grace.
Christians start preparing for Thanksgiving celebrations by purchasing wheat and gram,
candles, wine and colored tinsel paper. A temporary platform/altar is constructed
which is decorated with flowers, vines and creepers. Celebrations also include
singing of hymns and prayers. The village local violinist/choirmaster conducts the entire
show of singing of litany.
Religious Feast of Thanksgiving in Goa
Another celebration associated with the feeling of Thanksgiving, is the popular religious by: Singh Khan SInghrit-India
feast of conception of Mother Mary. It is a time for farmers to cut the first harvest
of milk-filed corn from the rice field and offer it to God. This is done to seek God's
blessing for a good harvest in the coming season. Though the date of celebrations varies
in different parts of Goa, but generally it is celebrated on the 15th of August every year.
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Everyone is advised to follow the exchange rate religiously
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and our bills by WON but by the dollars. So, please be considerate enough.
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