From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V12 #100 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Thursday, April 10 2008 Volume 12 : Number 100 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Did I hear right? ["Lonnie Gunter" ] Re: Did I hear right? [John Flood ] Re: Did I hear right? [Leslie Osborn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 07:21:40 -0500 From: "Lonnie Gunter" Subject: Re: Did I hear right? Yea... funny Steve... I love funny.... and that reminds me of this little ditty... (not required reading... ) Thelma English is Tough Multinational personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language..until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself. 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 plague 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 you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamor And enamor 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. Feoffer 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, breaches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, 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. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Richardson" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:57 PM Subject: Fw: Did I hear right? > > Maybe the announcer said the music would be very polished! :) > > Steve R > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: ; > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:06 PM > Subject: Did I hear right? > > > > > > Today, I heard my Smooth Jazz announcer say that Basia's next album will > > be > > all Polish music. Have I missed something or is he wrong? > > > > Phil P. > > > > > > > > **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. > > > > (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.9/1365 - Release Date: 4/8/2008 7:30 AM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:22:30 -0400 From: John Flood Subject: Re: Did I hear right? Whoa! I don't think I can talk properly after reading that through(threw). Might take a while to recover. lol John( not like Bohn!) Lonnie Gunter wrote: > Yea... funny Steve... I love funny.... and that reminds me of this little > ditty... (not required reading... ) Thelma > English is Tough > > Multinational personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters > near Paris found English to be an easy language..until they tried to > pronounce it. To help them discard an array of accents, the verses below > were devised. After trying them, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at > hard labor to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself. > > 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 plague 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 you correctly say croquet, > > Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, > > Friend and fiend, alive and live. > > Ivy, privy, famous; clamor > > And enamor 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. > > Feoffer 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, breaches, wise, precise, > > Chalice, but police and lice; > > Camel, constable, unstable, > > Principle, disciple, label. > > Petal, panel, and canal, > > 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. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Richardson" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:57 PM > Subject: Fw: Did I hear right? > > > >> Maybe the announcer said the music would be very polished! :) >> >> Steve R >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: >> To: ; >> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:06 PM >> Subject: Did I hear right? >> >> >> >>> Today, I heard my Smooth Jazz announcer say that Basia's next album will >>> be >>> all Polish music. Have I missed something or is he wrong? >>> >>> Phil P. >>> >>> >>> >>> **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel >>> > Guides. > >>> > (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) > >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.9/1365 - Release Date: 4/8/2008 >> > 7:30 AM ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:56:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: Did I hear right? I don't know your station, hopefully it's more localized, but the odds of reaching a live human who cares are low-- most SJ stations flip the switch and walk away for the day while the recorded automated day begins. Boo hiss. Wish I could trace who gave this dood the info and send them the true info, so they can at least do some good. There's a couple services run by freelance writers that feed the SJ voicetrackers "news". - --Leslie :) - --- PParm16424@aol.com wrote: > > Thanks, Leslie. I didn't think that was right. Guess > I'll have to give 'em a > call. > > Phil P. > > > > **************Planning your summer road trip? Check > out AOL Travel Guides. > > (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V12 #100 ****************************