Though

>though
God damn it, how do you pronounce this fucking word?
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"zow" in french

"dov" you retard

A sound between zow and vo

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/ðəʊ/ in IPA

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Only correct pronunciation inc
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>[Ch]emistry
>KE-miss-tree

>[Ch]est
>T'-est

>[Ch]ampagne
>SHam-pain

Why is english so retarded

Learning By Doing

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,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, 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, famous; 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, 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.
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.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, 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 allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
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.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.

>even though
>you just say the tho, like the as thiii but with same kinda low ending as in Oh. thOh

Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, 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, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (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 rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!

I've always loved this poem, really makes you appreciate that much of this comes naturally simply by being raised with english as a first language. Although every language will have its own quirks and difficulties.

Fe0ffer was Foeffer

I guess there's no British person willing to vocaroo this?

I also think the poem mostly works with American English. Haunt and aunt rhyme in British for as far as I know, and I think there are some more examples.

''dou''

"ðou"

thougHGCHRKCHRCKHRKHHH

Th-oh

Most languages are pants on head retarded. It comes frome the commitie designed nature of languages. The less people involved in building a system, typically, the better it'll be.

>Haunt and aunt rhyme in British for as far as I know

No
Haunt = Hornt
Aunt = Arnt

>>[Ch]est
>>T'-est

wut

Press teeth lightly on tip on tongue. Exhale air lightly as you pronounce T and end it with O sound. You will get a Th sound

>Haunt and aunt rhyme in British for as far as I know
They don't rhyme at all.

Haunt rhymes with gaunt, daunt, saunt[er]
Aunt rhymes with can't, slant, plant

It's a retarded rape French/Germanic/Scandi rape baby language

Thanks.
Might one of you take the effort to vocaroo the poem? I know it's a lot of effort, but it'd be really informative.

American: sure
Devon: share
Lancashire: shoe-oor
East London: shire
RP: she are

Aunt sometimes rhymes with haunt in regions of the US.
I pronounce it as "ant" though

Where are you getting this from

Why did you list Germanic and Scandinavian separately?

I did the first part. vocaroo.com/i/s0xnsR08Wnhj

Also, I needed to cough halfway through, so my voice goes funny a bit.

>>[Ch]ampagne
>>SHam-pain

Around Massachusetts, or different regions?
Thank you very much!

I don't know.
I think my retard brain was thinking of Vikings specifically and separated them.

I have a theory that Britain has all these substandard dialects because brits have fucked up teeth.

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I haven't checked over it and I'm kinda mumbling because it's late. Also I stop to catch up a bit and sometimes idk the words desu but here

yeah I fuck up the pronunciation a few times but it should be ok I guess?

>Thank you very much!
No worries. I did the rest: vocaroo.com/i/s1320nNUHGvv

That was actually quite stressful, I was starting to feel the pressure towards the end.

Also I know I said "vice-count" instead of "vi-count", I only realised it wasn't pronounced that way when I looked it up afterwards.

Oh fug I bollocksed that up too

Cute voice m8
Whereabouts your accent from

>Whereabouts your accent from

Not sure what you're trying to convey with this image of a spacker child desu

London.

I know I have a homo voice, but I'm not actually a homo

i confusing

"Whereabouts is your accent from?"

How is that?

I say "tou" and that's that
Fuck 'th' I HATE I HATE REEEEEEEEEEEE

the "whereabout" is confusing (not him btw)
we're used to seeing only "where"

better desu

Saying Champagne properly makes you sound incredibly posh. We Anglophied our French vocabulary and made it less sophisticated.

Just be like the French and pronounce it "Zo"

I think i have a decent pronunciation of "though" if i mmay say so. I could be wrong zo

It's pretty archaic. You don't really need to worry about it.

It's generally used more by middle aged people than the younger generation, and I don't think the Americans really use it. e.g "Whereabouts is the __ around here?"

mais j'aime votre accent quand vous dites ca :D

>mfw Britbongs call Z "zed"

>It's pretty archaic.
It's not archaic, it's a reasonably common word.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

I'm speaking from a New Zealand perspective. I know it's more common in the UK, but here young people use where almost exclusively.

>ZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZEDZED

Nigga why

>call Z "zed"
Now this is disturbing, it doesn't even make sense desu senpai lad

I know in the US "whereabouts" is a common noun. (As in, someone's whereabouts), but I don't think that's the same as you're talking about.

>dov
I pronounced dough "dof" not so long ago
and greenwich "green witch"
english pronunciation a shit

Þow

No that's used here too. I mean whereabouts as an adverb

>mfw americans pronounce buoy as "boo-ee"
>mfw americans pronounce fillet as "fillay"
>mfw americans pronounce herb as "erb"
>mfw americans pronounce vitamin as "vite-amin"
>mfw americans pronounce mobile as "moh-bull"
>mfw americans pronounce basil "bay-zul"
>mfw americans pronounce "caramel" as "carmel"
>mfw americans pronounce "pasta" as "paa-sta"
>mfw americans pronounce "semi" as "sem-eye"

I could do this all day, but I don't want to make myself puke

Because it's 2016

Even though you say that, even now there are some very old people who live in Yorkshire who speak in a dialect that uses Old Norse loanwords

youtube.com/watch?v=ScELaXMCVis

...

I tried to go through this but some of these words are quite dated.

>yep that's how I say it. what's the correct way tho
>yep again. again, what's right?
>yep. what's right?
>nah I pronounce it "vita-men"
>nah I say mo-bye-ul
>yep. what's right for you?
>nah I say "cara-mel"
>yep. and there is no way you will convince me otherwise
>nah I say "sem-ee"

you're pronouncing thou

>>T'-est

not really

theres of ones online on youtube and stuff

It's fairly common here actually, I don't know about elsewhere

Whereabouts is also a very common word here.