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COFFEE BREAK ENGLISH July 2nd 2023 6 Minute English All Ears English Podcast English @ the Movies - VOA Learning English English in a Minute - VOA Learning English Everyday Grammar TV - VOA Learning English News Words - VOA Learning English Learning English Broadcast - VOA Learning English Accent Training Podcast English with Stephen Learning English Faster.com A Way with Words: language linguistics, and callers from all over The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast Our Daily Bread Podcast | Our Daily Bread Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day, Word matters, 6 minute vocabulary 6 minute grammar Inside Out Leadership with Robb Holman Happy English Podcast Let's Master English American English Podcast Daily Easy English Expression Podcast Culips Everyday English Podcast English Makes No Sense Espresso English Podcast Clickable Links 👇 English in a Minute - VOA - Voice of America English News Everyday Grammar TV - VOA - Voice of America English News BBC Learning English - 6 Minute English English @ the Movies - VOA - Voice of America English News News Words - VOA - Voice of America English News Poacasts, which I would llke to recommend to everyone: 6 Minute English, All Ears English Podcast, English @the Movies - VOA Learning English, English in a Minute - VOA Learning English, Everyday Grammar TV - VOA Learning English, News Words - VOA Learning English, Learning English Broadcast - VOA Learning English, English Out LOUD, English with Stephen, Learning English Faster.com, A Way with Words: language, linguistics, and callers from all over, The John Maxwell Leadership Podcast, Our Daily Bread Podcast | Our Daily Bread, AUDIOBOOKS Dream Play (public domain) https://librivox.org/search?author=STRINDBERG&genre_id=0&keywords=&project_type=either&reader=&recorded_language=&search_form=advanced&search_page=1&sort_order=catalog_date&status=all&title=A+Dream+Play Marshal Recommend https://listenaminute.com/

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1] Here is some pronunciation. 2] Ration never rhymes with nation, 3] Say prefer, but preferable, Comfortable and vegetable, 4] "B" must not be heard in doubt, Debt and dumb both leave it out. 5] In the words psychology, psychic and psychiatry, You must never sound the "P". 6] Psychiatrist you call the man who cures the complex, if he can. 7] In architect, chi is k. In arch it is the other way. 8] Please remember to say iron So that it’ll rhyme with lion. 9] Advertisers advertise, Advertisements will put you wise. 10] Time when work is done is leisure, Fill it up with useful pleasure. 11] Accidental, accident, Sound the g in ignorant. 12] Relative, but relation, Then say creature, but creation. 13] Say the a in gas quite short Bought remember rhymes with thwart, Drought must always rhyme with bout, In daughter leave the “gh” out. 14] Wear a boot upon your foot. Root can never rhyme with soot. 15] In muscle, sc is s, In muscular, it’s sk, yes! 16] Choir must always rhyme with wire, That again will rhyme with liar. 17] Then remember it’s address With an accent like possess. 18] "G" in sign must silent be, In signature, pronounce the g. 19] Please remember, to say towards Just as if it rhymed with boards. 20] Weight’s like wait, but not like height. Which should always rhyme with might. Sew is just the same as so, 21] Tie a ribbon in a bow. When you meet the queen you bow, Which again must rhyme with how. 22] In perfect English make a start. Learn this little rhyme by heart. https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/using-poetry

1] In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. 2] There is no such thing as not worshiping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. 3] And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. 4] If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never feel you have enough. 5] Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. 6] Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. 7] Worship your intellect, you will end up feeling like a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.” —David Foster Wallace, This Is Water

1] I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough 2] Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through. 3] And cork and work and card and ward 4] And font and front and word and sword Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps, 5] Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird. 6] And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead– For goodness sakes don’t call it deed. 7] Watch out for meat and great and threat, They rhyme with suite and straight and debt. 8] A moth is not a moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth in brother. 9] And here is not a match for there, And dear and fear for bear and pear. 10] And then there’s dose and rose and lose– Just look them up–and goose and choose, 11] And do and go, then thwart and cart. 12] Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start! 13] A dreadful language? Man alive! I’d mastered it when I was five.

[1] Dearest creature in creation, 
study English pronunciation. [2] I will teach you in my verse 
sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. [3] I will keep you, Suzy, busy. 
Make your head with heat grow dizzy. [4] Tear in eye, your dress will tear. 
So shall I, oh hear my prayer. [5] Just compare heart, beard, and heard. Dies and diet, lord and word. [6] Sword and sward, retain and Britain. 
(Mind the latter, how it's written.) [7] Now I surely will not plague you,
with such words as plaque and ague. [8] But be careful how you speak: 
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak. [9] Cloven, oven, how and low. Script, receipt, show, poem and toe. [10] Hear me say, devoid of trickery, 
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore. [11] Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, 
Exiles, similes, and reviles. [12] Scholar, vicar, and cigar, 
Solar, mica, war and far. One, anemone, Balmoral, 
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel. [13] Gertrude, German, wind and mind, 
scene, Melpomene, mankind. [14] Billet does not rhyme with ballet, 
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. [15] Blood and flood are not like food, 
Nor is mould like should and would. [16] Viscous, viscount, load and broad, 
Toward, to forward, to reward. [17] And your pronunciation is OK 
When you correctly say croquet. [18] Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, 
Friend and fiend, alive and live. [19] Ivy, privy, famous; [20] clamour and enamour - rhyme with hammer. [21] River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, 
Doll and roll and some and home. [22] Stranger does not rhyme with anger, 
Neither does devour rhyme with clangour. [23] 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. [24] Query does not rhyme with very, 
Nor does fury sound like bury. [25] Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loath. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. [26] Though the differences seem little, 
We say actual but victual. [27] Refer does not rhyme with deafer. 
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. [28] 
Mint, pint, senate and sedate; 
Dull, bull, and George ate late. 
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, 
Science, conscience, scientific. [29] Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. 
[30] We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. [31] Mark the differences, moreover, 
Between mover, cover, clover; [32] Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, 
Chalice, but police and lice; [33] 
Camel, constable, unstable, 
Principle, disciple, and label. [34] Petal, panel, and canal, 
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. [35] Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. [36] 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. [37] Compare alien with Italian, 
Dandelion and battalion. [38] Sally with ally, yea, ye, 
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. [39] Say aver, but ever, fever, 
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. 
Heron, granary, canary. 
Crevice and device and aerie. [40] Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. [41] Large, but target, gin, give, verging, 
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. [42] 
Ear, but earn and wear and tear 
Do not rhyme with here but ere. 
 [43] Seven is right, but so is even, 
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, 
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, 
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. [44] Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! 
Is a paling stout and spikey? [45] 
Won't it make you lose your wits, 
Writing groats and saying grits? 
[46] It's a dark abyss or tunnel: 
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, [47] Islington and Isle of Wight, 
Housewife, verdict and indict. [48] Finally, which rhymes with enough ? Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? [49] Hiccough has the sound of cup. 
My advice is to give up!!! 
  ♦️♦️♦️ a·gue /ˈāˌɡyo͞o/ noun ARCHAIC 1. malaria or some other illness involving fever and shivering."as our ancestors knew, the bitter-tasting bark of the willow tree was a cure against the “ague” or malaria" 2. * a fever or shivering fit.plural noun: agues
"records and texts from the time describe agues or fevers at three- or four-day intervals" ♦️ ♦️ ♦️ loath /lōTH/ adjective adjective: loth 1. reluctant; unwilling."I was loath to leave" ♦️ ♦️ ♦️ aer·ie /ˈerē,ˈirē/ noun 1. a large nest of a bird of prey, especially an eagle, typically built high in a tree or on a cliff. ♦️ ♦️ ♦️ pal·ing /ˈpāliNG/ noun 1. a fence made from pointed wooden or metal stakes. 2. * a stake used in a paling. ♦️ ♦️ ♦️ sward /swôrd/ The poem below is called "The Chaos" and was written by G. Nolst Trenite, a.k.a. Charivarius (1870-1946).

By Ben Nedde A retired teacher of English wrote, There is no egg in eggplants, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing; grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, two geese. So one moose, two meese?. Doesn’t it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If teachers taught, why don’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. If the plural of mouse is mice why not the plural of house be hice since both are Noun? Why are we referring to ‘Building’ when it’s already built? What is the real name of Flies (insects)? When I say, I want to fly does it imply that I want to become an insect? Too many contradictions When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?’ Amazing right? English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.’ More Amazing English… Many parts of the body can be used as verbs in either a physical or a metaphorical sense. You can head a company, but if things go wrong you’ll have to shoulder the blame or face your investors. A good leader will back his employees, but if you don’t toe the line the management can skin you. Did you muscle your way into that job? You might eye someone suspiciously, or wait for the police to finger a suspect. But if you need to get out of town, you can thumb a ride or you can ride with me if you can stomach the thought. Use strong-arm tactic if you want to elbow out someone. I don’t always sing along with the radio, but I sometimes do mouth the words. (To all English-Language Lovers)