Dearest creature in creation…

Telve March 2013

Köşe yazısı deyince giriş gelişme sonuç bekliyorsunuz da bu sefer ben kafama takılan birkaç soruyla başlamak istiyorum.

Burada hayat yavaş de mi? Esas soru bu değil! Her şey ağır ağır işliyor…  Trafik yavaş, insanlar yavaş, işlemler yavaş…

Relax! Aceleye gerek yok… Sıraya gir, bekle…

İyi de be kardeşim madem neden arkadan atlı koşturuyor gibi konuşuyolar?

“Zit” ne bilen var mı? Geçenlerde öğrendim ki “is it”miş meğerse J)) “fitz” de “if it is”miş…

Hey allahım…

Bir de neden ”t” harfi var ki?  “T”yi  “d”  olarak söyledikten sonra  “t”ye ne gerek var?

Bazı kelimeler var, eş sesli desen değil, eş anlamlı desen değil…

Bana öyle bi kelime bulun ki yazılışı birebir aynı olsun ama farklı okunsun ve anlamı da birbirinden farklı olsun…

Ne gerek var de mi? Yok işte abiler yapmış… “Tear”

Ben taktım bu İngilizceye ya… Şimdi size bi şiir ekliyorum, bir de link… Bu link yardımıyla bütün şiirin doğru telaffuzunu takip edebilir ve öğrenebilirsiniz… Bu şiirdeki bütün kelimeleri doğru telaffuz ettiğinizde de CBCye spiker olabilirsiniz… Ben de çalışıyorum işte, bakarsınız bir gün İngilizce yazıvermişim köşeyi J))

THE CHAOS

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.

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.
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!!!

Doğru telaffuz için : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb0wo2D2heQ

Yazarı, gezgin ve öğretmen Gerard Nolst Trenité  (1870–1946). O da sanırım benim gibi takılmış bu konuya ve bu “The Chaos”u yazmış 1920’ de.  J))

Nur ol Gerard…

Aradan bu kadar yıl geçti… İngilizce hala aynı… Ama bu kaos senin şiirde kalmadı be Gerard, dünyayı sardı…

EED