Pronunciation poem. FREEWRITING

A few days ago I read this poem in COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE. It was referred to how non-english people or spanish-speakers pronounce difficult words in English. I think that it is worth checking out. I hope you like it!

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 letter, 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; 

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 and aunt, 

font, front, won’t, 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, mustache, eleven

We say allowed, 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 succor, four.

Gas, alas, and Arkansas, 

sea, idea, Korea, area,

Psalm, Maria but malaria.

Youth, south, southern,

cleanse and clean.

Doctrine, turpentine, and marine.

Compare alien with Italian,

dandelion, and battalion.

Sally, with ally, yeah, 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, scouring.

Ear, but earn and wear and tear

do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but also is even,

hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,

monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,

ask, gasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation — Think of Psyche!

Is a paling stout and spiky?

Won’t make it lose your wits, 

writing grants 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!!