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GU I D E to Y E L L OW S P R I NG S | 2O22 – 2O23 73 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. . . . 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 . . . 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, THE CHAOS (‘English Is Tough Stuff ’) | by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870–1946) French literature and library science. He believed in the power of words, and that everyone should have access to it. He was not alone. “The movement to reform English spelling has been alive and kicking for maybe 400 years,” Wright said. Among its proponents have been George Bernard Shaw, Teddy Roosevelt and Benjamin Franklin. There are present-day organizations such as the Simpler Spelling Society. So why hasn’t the idea caught on? ”Everyone who believes in spelling reform,” Wright said with a rueful smile, “has his own system.” They agree there’s a problem, but they can’t reach consensus on the solution. “Like me,” Wright said, “each reformer tends to think his idea is best.” ♦ 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. 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. Read the full version (out loud): https://bit.ly/3SrL3oV 217 Xenia Avenue, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387 937-767-7377 • www.yscu.org YS Federal Credit Union Your local Not-For-Profit, Member-Owned, Financial Cooperative If you live, work, worShip or go to SChool in Greene County, you are eligible to join our Credit Union! Check out the advantages of becoming a YSCU member: • Free Checking • Business Accounts • Vehicle Loans • Money Orders • First Mortgages • Home Equity Loans and Lines-of-Credit • VISA Credit Cards • Line-of-Credit Loans • It's Me 24/7 Online Banking • Online Bill Payment • Mobile Banking with Remote Deposit • E-Statements • MasterMoney™ Debit /ATM Cards • After-Hours Loan Accommodations • Build and/or Re-Establish Credit with Special Loan Program