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English Is Tough Stuff

Multinational personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization headquarters near Paris found
English to be an easy language. .. until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an
array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd
prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.
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 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 more...

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The Search For W

The King sent for his wise men all
To find a rhyme for W.
When they had thought for a time,
But could not think of a single rhyme,
"I'm sorry," he said," To trouble you."

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