MOROCCO-TRAVEL

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/////////////If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be
speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of
hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

(Если вы сможете правильно произнести каждое слово в этом стихотворении,
значит вы говорите по английски лучше чем 90% тех для кого этот язык
родной. Один француз, попытавшись это прочесть, заявил что он предпочтет 6
месяцев каторги, нежели прочесть 6 строк.)


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!!!

-- B. Shaw




////////////////////////////"Learning to Say No"

Everywhere we turn in our daily lives we are
offered food. This is one of the most difficult
things I have personally had to deal with over
the years.

It's a lot easier to lose weight when we stay home
away from temptations.

But, let's face it, this is very unrealistic.
We have to deal with "away from home" food
offers... usually every day. At work in the break
room... donuts... cakes... cookies etc.

The grocery store has people handing out samples.
Even at church, food is used to bring people
together. Not to mention clubs, parties,
weddings, birthdays...

Food everywhere you look. And my problem is that
I love food. Saying no is sometimes very difficult
to do. We don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

But the only person's feelings we are really
hurting is our own when we fail to say NO. We are
the ONLY one really effected by eating what
is offered.

I once worked with a guy who said he was O.K. with
turning food down, if he never took the first bite.
If he did, he was a goner. He wanted it all. I know
exactly what he means. I have this problem
with sweets.

If you can't handle just a taste of something...
don't start. Yes, it's difficult to say NO... but
sometime it is the only way to head off a binge.

When I was a kid my Mother used to tell me that if
I didn't want to eat something like spinach, all
I had to do was say, "No thank you, I don't care
for any."

If I said, "I don't want any of that old stuff"...
guess what. I sat there until I ate the very last
bite of it. It didn't take many times for me to
learn from this.

I can, and I dare say we all can, say "NO" to the
things we don't like to eat. It takes practice to
say NO to those we do like. But boy do we feel
good when do pass up those tempting foods.
Practice saying, "No Thank You" this weekend.
It really doesn't hurt.

Have a "Souper" weekend and be good to YOU!

Lillie



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From Chapter IV: The Yoga of the Division of Wisdom

IV.10. VEETARAAGABHAYAKRODHAA MANMAYAA MAAM UPAASHRITAAH;
BAHAVO JNAANA TAPASAA POOTAA MADBHAAVAM AAGATAAH.

(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
'Freed from attachment, fear and anger, absorbed in Me, taking
refuge in Me, purified by the fire of knowledge, many have
attained to My Being.'

IV.11. YE YATHAA MAAM PRAPADYANTE TAAMSTATHAIVA BHAJAAMYAHAM;
MAMA VARTMAANUVARTANTE MANUSHYAAH PAARTHA SARVASHAH.
'In whatever way men approach Me, even so do I reward them;
My path do men tread in all ways, O Arjuna!'


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