Evolution
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by monsoux
On this occasion I have noted the difference between a pictogram and a movie still (fotogram). Why does the pictogram have to be an image in a primitive writing? I would have used the word ancient.
Also, were you aware that apparently an ideograme does not necessarily include a particular pronunciation?
Oddly to me pronunciation does not spell pronounciation. And so on.
Here’s something funny on the topic of English pronunciation… (it’s a bit long, but it should rid you of any frustration at this language!)
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. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate
and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
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!!!