#2 (permalink) Fri Nov 03, 2006 20:05 pm A number of oddities in english |
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Ration only sometimes rhymes with nation, Say prefer, but preferable, Comfortable and vegetable. B must not be heard in doubt, Debt and dumb both leave it out. In the words psychology, Psychic, and psychiatry, You must never sound the p. Psychiatrist you call the man Who cures the complex, if he can. In architect chi is k In arch it is the other way. Please remember to say iron So that it'll rhyme with lion. Advertisers advertise, Advertisements will put you wise. Time when work is done is leisure, Fill it up with useful pleasure. Accidental, accident, Sound the g in ignorant. Relative, but relation, Then say creature, but creation. Say the a in gas quite short, Bought remember rhymes with thwart, Drought must always rhyme with bout, In daughter leave the gh out. Wear a boot upon your foot. Root can never rhyme with soot. In muscle, sc is s, In muscular, it's sk, yes! Choir must always rhyme with wire, That again will rhyme with liar. Then remember it's address. With an accent like posses. G in sign must silent be, In signature, pronounce the g. Please remember, say towards Just as if it rhymed with boards. Weight's like wait, but not like height. Which should always rhyme with might. |
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Gypsy1900 I'm new here and I like it ;-)

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#3 (permalink) Fri Nov 03, 2006 20:52 pm Words |
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Hi Conchita,
If you haven't I'm sure you will and if you have, I know you'll agree with me. What am I on about? I am referring to that genius of a wordsmith P G Wodehouse and I'm talking about haven't read/have read and will agree in that order. Tiptoe through his prose and you stumble over some of the choicest words and word fabrications in the language and when you pick yourself up again and remember them later they'll keep you in joy for ever and a day. If I can nick a bit from William Wordsworth and sort of transpose it, this recall goes a bit like this:
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For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And then my heart with pleasure fills, |
Anyhow that's what I mean when you remember a bit from PGW when you're stuck in a traffic jam. I can hear Mr Wordsworth tut-tutting at my banality sat up there on Olympus.
Not sure whether this is relevant to your comments but I can't resist giving a plug for the Master.
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Alan Co-founder

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