Feather - stone - shaw? Never heard it, spelt it, and I didn't cheat by way of Wikipedia ;p
Gary --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All I want to say is, "Featherstoneshaugh".? Try > spelling it if you've only ever heard it, or > pronouncing it correctly if you've only ever seen it > written and not heard it spoken. > > > > Dave Weiner > > Brass Arts Unlimited > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'The Horn List' <horn@music.memphis.edu> > Sent: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 7:56 pm > Subject: RE: [Hornlist] [NHR] Englilsh > inconsistencies > > > > > Just so, listening to a radio program on the history > of English Language and > one of the folks pointed out that pronunciation has > changed over the years > but spelling does not. Knight was originally > pronounced as Monty Python has > it in the Holy Grail. Over time the "k" sound got > dropped but the spelling > stayed the same. > > -----Original Message----- > From: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of > Chris Earnest > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:19 PM > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > Subject: [Hornlist] [NHR] Englilsh inconsistencies > > The biggest inconsistencies in English are in its > pronouciation vs its > spelling. Supposedly, multi-national personnel at > NATO headquarters 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. Not easy > even for a native speaker to read rapidly! > > > Dearest creature in creation > Studying 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 you'll tear, > So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer, > Pray, console your loving poet, > Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! > 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). > > > Made has not the sound of bade, > Say said, pay-paid, laid, but plaid. > Now I surely will not plague you > With such words as vague and ague, > But be careful how you speak, > Say break, steak, but bleak and streak. > Previous, precious, fuchsia, via, > Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir, > Cloven, oven, how and low, > Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. > > > Hear me say, devoid of trickery: > Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, > Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles. > Exiles, similes, reviles. > Wholly, holly, signal, signing. > Thames, examining, combining > Scholar, vicar, and cigar, > Solar, mica, war, and far. > >From "desire": desirable--admirable from "admire." > Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier. > > > Chatham, brougham, renown, but known. > Knowledge, done, but gone and tone, > One, anemone. Balmoral. > Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel, > Gertrude, German, wind, and mind. > Scene, Melpomene, mankind, > Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather, > Reading, reading, heathen, heather. > This phonetic labyrinth > Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth. > > > Billet does not end like ballet; > Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet; > Blood and flood are not like food, > Nor is mould like should and would. > Banquet is not nearly parquet, > Which is said to rime with "darky." > Viscous, Viscount, load, and broad. > Toward, to forward, to reward. > > > And your pronunciation's O.K., > When you say correctly: croquet. > Rounded, wounded, grieve, and sieve, > Friend and fiend, alive, and live, > Liberty, library, heave, and heaven, > Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven, > We say hallowed, but allowed, > People, leopard, towed, but vowed. > > > Mark the difference, moreover, > Between mover, plover, Dover, > Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, > Chalice, but police, and lice. > Camel, constable, unstable, > Principle, disciple, label, > Petal, penal, and canal, > Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal. > > > Suit, suite, ruin, circuit, conduit, > Rime with "shirk it" and "beyond it." > But it is not hard to tell, > Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall. > Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron, > Timber, climber, bullion, lion, > Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, and chair, > Senator, spectator, mayor, > Ivy, privy, famous, clamour > And enamour rime with hammer. > Pussy, hussy, and possess, > Desert, but dessert, address. > > > Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants. > Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants. > River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, > Doll and roll and some and home. > Stranger does not rime with anger. > Neither does devour with clangour. > Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt. > Font, front, won't, want, grand, and grant. > > > Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger. > And then: singer, ginger, linger, > Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, and gauge, > Marriage, foliage, mirage, age. > Query does not rime with very, > Nor does fury sound like bury. > > > Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth; > Job, Job; blossom, bosom, oath. > Though the difference seems little, > We say actual, but victual. > Seat, sweat; chaste, caste.; Leigh, eight, height; > Put, nut; granite, and unite. > Reefer does not rime with deafer, > Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. > > > Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late, > Hint, pint, Senate, but sedate. > Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, > Science, conscience, scientific, > Tour, but our and succour, four, > Gas, alas, and Arkansas. > Sea, idea, guinea, area, > Psalm, Maria, but malaria, > Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean, > Doctrine, turpentine, marine. > > > Compare alien with Italian, > Dandelion with battalion. > Sally with ally, yea, ye, > Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay. > Say aver, but ever, fever. > Neither, leisure, skein, receiver. > Never guess--it is not safe: > We say calves, valves, half, but Ralph. > Heron, granary, canary, > Crevice and device, and eyrie, > === message truncated === Get Firefox!!http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
