<p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1">'혼돈'이라는 이름의 시를 하나 소개합니다.</font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><br></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'맑은 고딕';font-size:x-small;">2단의 corpse (콥스) 와 corps (코어)처럼 철자가 비슷하지만 운(rhyme)이 다른 예 (후자의 경우 무음의 예),</span></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1">4단의 tear (티어)와 tear (테어)처럼 같은 철자지만 발음이 다른 예,</font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1">13단의 trickery (트리커리)와 Terpsichore (텁시커리)처럼 다른 철자에 같은 운의 예 등 (후자는 영어가 아니지만),</font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1"><br></font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1">영어의 철자와 발음간의 불규칙성을 잘 나타내는 시 입니다.</font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><br></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1">영어를 배우는 사람들에게 발음을 가르쳐주기 위해 써진 시 라고는 하는데, 정작 교재로 쓰였는지는 알수 없다 합니다.</font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1">항간의 말에 의하면 이 시를 완벽하게 발음할 수 있는 사람은 영어 단어의 90%를 발음할 수 있다, 혹은 90% 이상의 사람들이 이 시를 완벽하게 발음하지 못한다 라는 소리가 있습니다.</font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1"><br></font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1">흥미가 있으신 분들은 한번 도전해보심이 어떨까 싶어 영게에 올립니다.</font></p> <p style="line-height:normal;"><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1"><br></font></p> <p><font face="맑은 고딕" size="1"><span style="line-height:normal;"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw</a> <- 대부분의 발음을 제대로 한 영상입니다, 참고하시면 좋을듯 합니다.</span></font></p> <h1 style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:normal;"><br></h1> <h1 style="font-family:'Times New Roman';line-height:normal;">The Chaos (by G. Nolst Trenité, a.k.a. "Charivarius"; 1870 - 1946)</h1> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Dearest creature in creation<br>Studying English pronunciation,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">I will teach you in my verse<br>Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">I will keep you, Susy, busy,<br>Make your head with heat grow dizzy.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Tear in eye your dress you'll tear,<br>So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Pray, console your loving poet,<br>Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Just compare heart, beard and heard,<br>Dies and diet, lord and word,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Sword and sward, retain and Britain.<br>(Mind the latter, how it's written).</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Made has not the sound of bade,<br>Say said, pay-paid, laid, but plaid.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Now I surely will not plague you<br>With such words as vague and ague,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">But be careful how you speak,<br>Say break, steak, but bleak and streak.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Previous, precious, fuchsia, via,<br>Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Cloven, oven, how and low,<br>Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Hear me say, devoid of trickery:<br>Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles.<br>Exiles, similes, reviles.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Wholly, holly, signal, signing.<br>Thames, examining, combining</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Scholar, vicar, and cigar,<br>Solar, mica, war, and far.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">From "desire": desirable--admirable from "admire."<br>Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Chatham, brougham, renown, but known.<br>Knowledge, done, but gone and tone,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">One, anemone. Balmoral.<br>Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Gertrude, German, wind, and mind.<br>Scene, Melpomene, mankind,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,<br>Reading, reading, heathen, heather.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">This phonetic labyrinth<br>Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Billet does not end like ballet;<br>Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet;</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Blood and flood are not like food,<br>Nor is mould like should and would.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Banquet is not nearly parquet,<br>Which is said to rime with "darky."</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Viscous, Viscount, load, and broad.<br>Toward, to forward, to reward.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">And your pronunciation's O.K.,<br>When you say correctly: croquet.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Rounded, wounded, grieve, and sieve,<br>Friend and fiend, alive, and live,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Liberty, library, heave, and heaven,<br>Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">We say hallowed, but allowed,<br>People, leopard, towed, but vowed.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Mark the difference, moreover,<br>Between mover, plover, Dover,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,<br>Chalice, but police, and lice.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Camel, constable, unstable,<br>Principle, disciple, label,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Petal, penal, and canal,<br>Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Suit, suite, ruin, circuit, conduit,<br>Rime with "shirk it" and "beyond it."</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">But it is not hard to tell,<br>Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,<br>Timber, climber, bullion, lion,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, and chair,<br>Senator, spectator, mayor,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Ivy, privy, famous, clamour<br>And enamour rime with hammer.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Pussy, hussy, and possess,<br>Desert, but dessert, address.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants.<br>Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,<br>Doll and roll and some and home.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Stranger does not rime with anger.<br>Neither does devour with clangour.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt.<br>Font, front, won't, want, grand, and grant.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger.<br>And then: singer, ginger, linger,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, and gauge,<br>Marriage, foliage, mirage, age.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Query does not rime with very,<br>Nor does fury sound like bury.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth;<br>Job, Job; blossom, bosom, oath.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Though the difference seems little,<br>We say actual, but victual.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Seat, sweat; chaste, caste.; Leigh, eight, height;<br>Put, nut; granite, and unite.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Reefer does not rime with deafer,<br>Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,<br>Hint, pint, Senate, but sedate.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,<br>Science, conscience, scientific,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Tour, but our and succour, four,<br>Gas, alas, and Arkansas.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Sea, idea, guinea, area,<br>Psalm, Maria, but malaria,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,<br>Doctrine, turpentine, marine.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Compare alien with Italian,<br>Dandelion with battalion.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Sally with ally, yea, ye,<br>Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Say aver, but ever, fever.<br>Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Never guess--it is not safe:<br>We say calves, valves, half, but Ralph.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Heron, granary, canary,<br>Crevice and device, and eyrie,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Face but preface, but efface,<br>Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Large, but target, gin, give, verging,<br>Ought, out, joust, and scour, but scourging,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Ear but earn, and wear and bear<br>Do not rime with here, but ere.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Seven is right, but so is even,<br>Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Monkey, donkey, clerk, and jerk,<br>Asp, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Pronunciation--think of psyche--!<br>Is a paling, stout and spikey,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Won't it make you lose your wits,<br>Writing "groats" and saying "grits"?</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">It's a dark abyss or tunnel,<br>Strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale,</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Islington and Isle of Wight,<br>Housewife, verdict, and indict!</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Don't you think so, reader, rather,<br>Saying lather, bather, father?</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Finally: which rimes with "enough"<br>Though, through, plough, cough, hough, or tough?</p> <p style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium;line-height:normal;">Hiccough has the sound of "cup."<br>My advice is--give it up!</p>