So, I am a native English speaker. Specifically, I have a Southern Californian accent, and I know a lot of people on here are not native English speakers...so I tried to read this poem out loud.

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,

scrpit, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,

Daughter, laughter, and Terpshichore,

Typhiod, 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, fanous; 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, huant but aunt,

Font front, wont, want, grand, and grant,

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say singer,

And then singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge, 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.

Min, 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 not allowed,

People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

Mark the differences, moreover,

Between mover, cover, clover;

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

Chalice, but police, and lice;

Camle, constable, unstable,

Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,

Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.

Worm, and storm, chaise, choas, chair,

Senator, spectator, mayor.

Tour, but oyr and succour, four.

Gass, alas, and Arkansas.

Sea, idea, Korea, area,

Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.

Doctinre, 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, deciever.

Heron, granary, canary.

Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.

Phlegm, phlegmatic, , 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, rasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronounciation (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 rymes with enough,

Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?

Hiccough has the soud of cup.

My advice is to give up!!!

 

CAN ANYBODY PRONOUNCE THAT CORRECTLY THEIR FIRST TIME BECAUSE I CANT. I have such a respect for English second language learners now. Ya'll are amazing. Idk how you do it.