dead did cheque chick dell dill

desk disk deck dick den din

belt built fen fin dent dint
fell fill get git fetter fitter
head hid jest gist fez fizz
left lift leapt lipped fleck flick
mess miss led lid fretter fritter
bed bid lest list gelding gilding
beg big kecks kicks heck hick
bell bill kept kipped hem hymn
bet bit meddle middle hep hip
check chick messed mist hex hicks
gem gym peg pig ken kin
hell hill set sit ketch kitsch
hem him bless bliss Med mid
let lit Celt kilt phlegm flim
pet pit clef cliff quell quill
bend binned clench clinch late / let
bent bint crept crypt pain / pen
wait / wet look / took / book / cook
main / men hat / cat / back / map
said / sad heart / dark / start / park
bed / bad hot / not / body / got
mess / mass hat / heart / hot
head / had
luck / look

bought / saw / call /

automatic
boat / no / so / slow
but / cut / what / sun
bought / boat / but
late / name / take / eight
let / get / pen / best
feel / see / meet / be
fell / egg / wet / better
fill / will / it / sick / miss
feel / fell / fill
luck / but / what / bus / fun
Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Chaos (1922) Solar, mica, war and far.

Dearest creature in creation From "desire": desirable-admirable from

Studying English pronunciation, "admire",
I will teach you in my verse Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
Sounds Topsham, brougham, renown,
like corpse, corps, horse and worse. but known,
Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, to
I will keep you, Susy, busy, ne,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy;
Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear; One, anemone, Balmoral,
Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.
Gertrude, German, wind and wind,
Pray, console your loving poet, Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind,
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
Just compare heart, hear and heard, Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
Dies and diet, lord and word. Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Sword and sward, retain and Britain Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, nint
(Mind the latter how it's written). h, plinth.
Made has not the sound of bade,
Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid. Have you ever yet endeavoured
To pronounce revered and severed,
Now I surely will not plague you Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul,
With such words as vague and ague, Peter, petrol and patrol?
But be careful how you speak,
Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, Billet does not end like ballet;
bleak , Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Previous, precious, fuchsia, via Nor is mould like should and would.
Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir;
Woven, oven, how and low, Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. Which exactly rhymes with khaki.
Discount, viscount, load and broad,
Say, expecting fraud and trickery: Toward, to forward, to reward,
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Branch, ranch, Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet?
measles, topsails, aisles, Right! Your pronunciation's OK.
Missiles, similes, reviles. Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
Same, examining, but mining, Is your r correct in higher?
Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia.
 Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot, Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
Buoyant, minute, but minute. Timber, climber, bullion, lion,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Say abscission with precision, Senator, spectator, mayor,
Now: position and transition;
Would it tally with my rhyme Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
If I mentioned paradigm? Has the a of drachm and hammer.
Pussy, hussy and possess,
Twopence, threepence, tease are easy, Desert, but desert, address.
But cease, crease, grease and greasy?
Cornice, nice, valise, revise, Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants
Rabies, but lullabies. Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants.
Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb,
Of such puzzling words as nauseous, Cow, but Cowper, some and home.
Rhyming well with cautious, tortious,
You'll envelop lists, I hope, "Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker",
In a linen envelope. Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor",
Making, it is sad but true,
Would you like some more? You'll have In bravado, much ado.
it!
Affidavit, David, davit. Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
To abjure, to perjure. Sheik Neither does devour with clangour.
Does not sound like Czech but ache. Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand and gra
Liberty, library, heave and heaven, nt.
Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed, Arsenic, specific, scenic,
People, leopard, towed but vowed. Relic, rhetoric, hygienic.
Gooseberry, goose, and close,
Mark the difference, moreover, but close,
Between mover, plover, Dover. Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice, Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle,
Make the latter rhyme with eagle.
Camel, constable, unstable, Mind! Meandering but mean,
Principle, disciple, label. Valentine and magazine.
Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal, And I bet you, dear, a penny,
You say mani-(fold) like many,
Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier,
Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it", Tier (one who ties), but tier.
But it is not hard to tell
Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall. Arch, archangel; pray, does erring
Rhyme with herring or with stirring?
 Prison, bison, treasure trove, Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely
Treason, hover, cover, cove, May be made to rhyme with Raleigh,
But you're not supposed to say
Perseverance, severance. Ribald Piquet rhymes with sobriquet.
Rhymes (but piebald doesn't)
with nibbled. Had this invalid invalid
Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw, Worthless documents? How pallid,
Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw. How uncouth he, couchant, looked,
When for Portsmouth I had booked!
Don't be down, my own, but rough it,
And distinguish buffet, buffet; Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite,
Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, Paramour, enamoured, flighty,
boon, Episodes, antipodes,
Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn. Acquiesce, and obsequies.

Say in sounds correct and sterling Please don't monkey with the geyser,
Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling. Don't peel 'taters with my razor,
Evil, devil, mezzotint, Rather say in accents pure:
Mind the z! (A gentle hint.) Nature, stature and mature.

Now you need not pay attention Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly,
To such sounds as I don't mention, Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly,
Sounds like pores, pause, Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,
pours and paws, Wan, sedan and artisan.
Rhyming with the pronoun yours;
The th will surely trouble you
Nor are proper names included, More than r, ch or w.
Though I often heard, as you did, Say then these phonetic gems:
Funny rhymes to unicorn, Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.
Yes, you know
them, Vaughan and Strachan. Thompson, Chatham, Waltham,
Streatham,
No, my maiden, coy and comely, There are more but I forget 'em-
I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley. Wait! I've got it: Anthony,
No. Yet Froude compared with proud Lighten your anxiety.
Is no better than McLeod.
The archaic word albeit
But mind trivial and vial, Does not rhyme with eight-you see it;
Tripod, menial, denial, With and forthwith, one has voice,
Troll and trolley, realm and ream, One has not, you make your choice.
Schedule, mischief,
schism, and scheme. Shoes, goes, does *. Now first say: finger;
Then say: singer, ginger, linger.
 Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge, Say aver, but ever, fever,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age, Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess-it is not safe,
Hero, heron, query, very, We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.
Parry, tarry fury, bury,
Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth, Starry, granary, canary,
Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath. Crevice, but device, and eyrie,
Face, but preface, then grimace,
Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners, Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners
Holm you know, but noes, canoes, Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,
Puisne, truism, use, to use? Ought, oust, joust, and scour,
but scourging;
Though the difference seems little, Ear, but earn; and ere and tear
We say actual, but victual, Do not rhyme with here but heir.
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight,
height, Mind the o of off and often
Put, nut, granite, and unite. Which may be pronounced as orphan,
With the sound of saw and sauce;
Reefer does not rhyme with deafer, Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late, Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?
Hint, pint, senate, but sedate. Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.
Respite, spite, consent, resent.
Gaelic, Arabic, pacific, Liable, but Parliament.
Science, conscience, scientific;
Tour, but our, dour, succour, four, Seven is right, but so is even,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit, Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work.
Next omit, which differs from it
Bona fide, alibi A of valour, vapid vapour,
Gyrate, dowry and awry. S of news (compare newspaper),
G of gibbet, gibbon, gist,
Sea, idea, guinea, area, I of antichrist and grist,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and cl Differ like diverse and divers,
ean, Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll,
Polish, Polish, poll and poll.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion, Pronunciation-think of Psyche!-
Rally with ally; yea, ye, Is a paling, stout and spiky.
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!
 Won't it make you lose your wits
Writing groats and saying "grits"?

It's a dark abyss or tunnel

Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale,
Islington, and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.

Don't you think so, reader, rather,

Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, bough, cough, houg
h, sough, tough??

Hiccough has the sound of sup...

My advice is: GIVE IT UP!