creature in creation Studying English pronunciation , I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse , corps , horse and worse . I will keep you , Susy , busy , Make your head with heat grow dizzy Tear in eye , your dress you ' ll tear Queer , fair seer , hear my prayer . Pray , console your loving poet , Make my coat look new , dear , sew it ! Just compare heart , hear and heard , Dies and diet , lord and word . Sword and sward , retain and Britain Mind the latter how it ' s written . Made has not the sound of bade , Saysaid , paypaid , laid but plaid . Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague , But be careful how you speak , Say gush , bush , steak , streak , break , bleak , Previous , precious , fuchsia , via Recipe , pipe , studdingsail , choir Woven , oven , how and low , Script , receipt , shoe , poem , toe . Say , expecting fraud and trickery Daughter , laughter and Terpsichore , Branch , ranch , measles , topsails , aisles , Missiles , similes , reviles . Wholly , holly , signal , signing , Same , examining , but mining , Scholar , vicar , and cigar , Solar , mica , war and far