Billet does not end like ballet Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. This phonetic labyrinth Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.

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. 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. Previous, precious, fuchsia, via Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir, Cloven, oven how and low Script, receipt shoe, poem, toe. 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. 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.

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. 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. Dearest creature in Creation, Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

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