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练发音的诗

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练发音的一首诗

练发音的一首诗

Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization

(NATO) 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 hard labour to reading six lines aloud.

Try them yourself.

                                                              

                                                                             

             English is tough stuff

       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 hears.

       Dies and diet, lord and word.

       Sword and sward, retain and Britain.

       (Mind the letter, how it's written.)

       Now I surely will not plague you

       With such