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Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet.

Bouquet^{1, wallet, mallet2, chalet.}

Blood and flood are not like food.

Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous^{3, viscount, load and broad.}

Towards, to forward, to reward.

And your pronunciation's OK.

When you correctly say croquet.

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve^4.

Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy^{5, privy6, 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^{7 with clangour.}

Souls but foul^{8, haunt with aunt.}

Font, front, wont^{9, want, grand and grant.}

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger.

And then singer, ginger^{10, linger.}

Real, zeal^{11 ,mauve, gauze, gouge12 and gauge13.}

Marriage, foliage^{14, mirage15 and age.}

Query^{16 does not rhyme with very,}

Nor does fury sound like bury,

Does, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.

Job, nob, bosom^{17, transom, oath.}

Though the differences seem little.

We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.

Foeffer does, and zethyt, helfer.

Mint, pint, senate and sedate;

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,

Science, conscience, scientific