Sunday Fun.Speak Faster

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Sunday fun, friends!

Welcome to the English Language again!

Again and again, it doesn't stop surprising us, amusing us.

The post is mainly for non native speakers, of course.

But native speakers can look at the post and at English with their fresh eyes and marvel at it together with us.





OK, OK. I see logic and some beauty in "Wanna dance?", "Wanna banana?"



"I've gotta go", or "I've gotta book" are OK with me.

But "Na chet"? Why do you do it?

It's you, my American friends. What do you do with English?






A cool phonetic joke.This is what I really like.




No need to learn the rules of reading. They plain don't work.






Also, in order not to be confused when at a restaurant.

There are things to get astonished at for a non native speaker here.




Hope you didn't get frustrated....



Have a great Sunday!:))

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Now this is a fresh and entertaining post. I love that movie!!!

It's a tough language all right, Vera, and you are becoming a master! :)

Thank you!:))

Thanks for the Sunday Chuckle, Vera!

I was born and raised in America, yet, the language still has me scratching my head at times.

Like...for the word "DOUBT" if the "B" is silent, why not just leave it out altogether!

"TO", "TOO", and "TWO"; different meaning but sound exactly alike. Why!

I really commend anyone who learns English as a 2nd language!

Yep... comb, tomb, numb, dumb..
daughter, slaughter... to be continued...
pear, pare, pair...
And it's so beautiful and graceful at the same time!...:))

Try Scottish Rick, that’s worse lol. Xxx

Hilarious Vera! Tell me is there a career to be made in RFL (Russian as a Foreign Language)?

Who wants this career? You?:))

I don't think I want to ruffle my feathers that way!

Why asking then?:)

Who do you think might want it?:)

Perhaps if Russia reemerges as a colonial empire as in Alaska?

What's the connection ? You think Russia will want Alaska back? It's not the Crimea.:)

Just postulating contingencies Vera (tongue in cheek)

Good evening Vera,

It is unpossible not to laugh.

Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske

Thanks, Taetske... Totally unpossible...:))

Thanks for this Vera, love it lol. Xxx

Thank you, Cheryl. Glad you do.:)

No problem Vera, you are welcome. Xxx

:)

Thanks for sharing, Vera.

My pleasure, Rog. Thanks for reading.:)

Thanks Vera - I think if I wasn't born with it, I would have given up long ago :0)

And I still continue. Poor me. Happy me...:)))

Haha, that's great. You reminded me of this poem:

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 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.
Fe0ffer 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!!!

Thanks a lot. . I know this verse and I torture my students with it....:)

Very funny and true.

Thank you, Joe.:)

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