Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet.

Bouquet¹, wallet, mallet², chalet.

Blood and flood are not like food.

Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous³, viscount, load and broad.

Towards, to forward, to reward.

And your pronunciation's OK.

When you correctly say croquet.

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve⁴.

Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy⁵, privy⁶, 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 devour⁷ with clangour.

Souls but foul⁸, haunt with aunt.

Font, front, wont⁹, want, grand and grant.

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger.

And then singer, ginger¹⁰, linger.

Real, zeal¹¹ ,mauve, gauze, gouge¹² and gauge¹³.

Marriage, foliage¹⁴, mirage¹⁵ and age.

Query¹⁶ does not rhyme with very,

Nor does fury sound like bury,

Does, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.

Job, nob, bosom¹⁷, transom, oath.

Though the differences seem little.

We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.

Foeffer does, and zethyt, helfer.

Mint, pint, senate and sedate;

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,

Science, conscience, scientific

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