2018-05-01 Pronunciation: the chaos, homonyms

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Poetry: rhyme and meter
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Little Miss Muffet				A		2
Sat on a tuffet				A		2
Eating her curds and whey,		B		3
When along came a spider		C		2
Who sat down beside her		C		2
And frightened Miss Muffet away.	B		3
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http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
“The Chaos”
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Dearest creature in creation				A	4
Studying English pronunciation,			A	4
I will teach you in my verse				B	4
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.	B	4
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With your partner, identify stressed syllables (“beats”) and how to pronounce the last word in each line.
(The poem is written for British English, so for example “choir” rhymes with “via”, which it doesn’t do in American English.)
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Row row row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily
Life is but a dream.
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There are many homographs and homophones in this poem (and in English in general).
homographs (but not homophones):
	tear/tear, Polish/polish, bow/bow, record/record
homophones (but not homographs):
	tear/tare, bow/bough, bow/beau, their/there/they’re, to/too/two, right/rite/write/wright
homonyms (written and sound the same, but different words)
	right (not left)/right (not wrong)/right (n)/right (adv), left/left, leech (animal)/leech (doctor)