文档介绍:The Chaos By G. Nolst Trenite, aka Charivarius (1870-1946) 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 。 pare 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,