Thx, for explaining together with wikipedia but it's still what I exactly wrote... read between words
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Jul 05, 2015 9:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | English test for all councils |
Pronunciation test 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. |
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| Author: | o-marek [ Sun Jul 05, 2015 12:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: English test for all councils |
Grammar; the difference between knowing your [edited by admin] and knowing you're [edited by admin]... |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Jul 05, 2015 2:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: English test for all councils |
o-marek wrote: Grammar; the difference between knowing your [edited by admin] and knowing you're [edited by admin]... Thats grammar not pronunciation dear boy |
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| Author: | o-marek [ Mon Jul 06, 2015 6:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: English test for all councils |
thaT'S what I exactly wrote... dear boy... |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: English test for all councils |
o-marek wrote: thaT'S what I exactly wrote... dear boy... Was not dear boy, look again o-marek wrote: Grammar; the difference between knowing your [edited by admin] and knowing you're [edited by admin]... Grammar In linguistics, grammar is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases, and words in any given natural language. The term refers also to the study of such rules, and this field includes morphology, syntax, and phonology, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics. Pronunciation Pronunciation is the way a word or a language is spoken, or the manner in which someone utters a word. If one is said to have "correct pronunciation", then it refers to both within a particular dialect. A word can be spoken in different ways by various individuals or groups, depending on many factors, such as: the duration of the cultural exposure of their childhood, the location of their current residence, speech or voice disorders, their ethnic group, their social class, or their education. |
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| Author: | o-marek [ Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: English test for all councils |
Thx, for explaining together with wikipedia but it's still what I exactly wrote... read between words
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: English test for all councils |
o-marek wrote: Thx, for explaining together with wikipedia but it's still what I exactly wrote... read between words as it was edited by the site how would I know? |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Mon Jul 06, 2015 4:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: English test for all councils |
The difference between YOUR and YOU'RE (YOU ARE) is not (isnt) one of pronunciation, rather one of Grammar, my original list has nothing to do with grammar. |
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