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  • #604429
    gefen
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    Who can guess what this spells? If you know, do you have any other words like this? Let’s have some phun 😉

    #948765
    ConcernedMember
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    Dagim.

    #948766
    OneOfMany
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    Isn’t it “ghoti”?

    #948767
    Curiosity
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    Gefilte ghotio

    #948768
    Kozov
    Member

    lklklklkklklkklklkklkkghotiolklklklklklklkklkklklkl

    #948769

    On Shabbos I eat gegholte ghotio

    #948770
    i love coffe
    Participant

    fish

    #948771
    gefen
    Participant

    wow – a bunch of smart ppl on the cr. but i knew that already. 🙂

    um… kozov – you stumped me. 🙁

    #948772
    Kozov
    Member

    silent l in walk silent k in knight silent b in bomb silent n in solemn silent w in wrapper silent h in white

    lwkbhnghotiobhklw

    #948773
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    Who knows what this spells:

    “psoloquoise”

    #948774

    Who knows what this spells:

    “psoloquoise”

    Circus.

    #948775
    gefen
    Participant

    shticky – good one. 🙂

    #948777
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    And please explain to everyone how you get “circus”. (I’m sure that sounds a little ghotiy to most people).

    #948778
    Curiosity
    Participant

    Ps as in psychic, olo as in colonel, quoise as in….. Turquoise?

    #948779

    you guys are good

    #948780
    Shticky Guy
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    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, Susy, 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.

    Liberty, library, heave and heaven,

    Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.

    We say hallowed, 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 succour, four.

    Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

    Sea, idea, Korea, area,

    Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

    Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.

    Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

    Compare alien with Italian,

    Dandelion and battalion.

    Sally with ally, yea, 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, scourging.

    Ear, but earn and wear and tear

    Do not rhyme with here but ere.

    Seven is right, but so is even,

    Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,

    Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,

    Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

    Pronunciation — think of Psyche!

    Is a paling stout and spikey?

    Won’t it make you lose your wits,

    Writing groats 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!

    #948781
    giggle girl
    Participant

    shticky – that is adorable! where did you get this from? who wrote it? it’s genius!

    #948782
    Curiosity
    Participant

    Sending this to my mother 🙂 English is her second language.

    #948783
    Sabzi
    Member

    It’s called “The Chaos” by Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946)

    #948784
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    The second pronunciation is completely silent!!

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