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Random Real Thoroughbred: SAIKO DRACHM
SAIKO DRACHM is a chesnut horse born in Japan in 1991. By DECADRACHM out of SAIKO HEART. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/saiko+drachm
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silena sketching ry and him endlessly teasing her about it 💔 while she's still in a state of denial that she is actually attracted to him beyond thinking he's hot and annoying 💔
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Silver coin of Mark Antony
Roman period ca. 40-31 BC
Drachm of the Roman General and Triumvir Marcus Antonius from Antiochia ad Orontem.
Obv. Bust of Mark Antony facing right. Rev. Head of Tyche facing right Inscribed, ΑΝΤΙ��ΧΕΩΝΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ (of the metropolis of the people of Antioch)
The mint of Antioch produced a drachm coinage in its own name, but with a portrait of Antony on the obverse. On the reverse appeared the head of Tyche with the legend 'of the metropolis of the people of Antioch'. The date of the issue cannot be determined with precision. In concept, this coinage is analogous to, though of higher value than, the city bronze coinages with Antony and Cleopatra's portraits.
from The British Museum
#mark antony#marcus antonius#roman history#numismatics#silver coins#ancient coins#ancient art#antiquities#antiquity#ancient artifacts#british museum
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La France est en soins palliatifs. Sous piquouze de choc. De l’olympisme en intraveineuse. Du shoot de winner médaillé or. Plus de gouvernement, certes, mais le petit peuple, toujours coiffé par ses élites, se délecte. Bientôt on tentera de payer sa baguette en drachme estampillé BCE, mais qui s’en fout ? La tant redoutée “troïka bruxelloise” viendra déféquer dans les bottes de la garde républicaine, nakamuratée à mort et bien incapable de défendre la porte du château. On devra faire ceci et ne plus faire cela. On dira adieu à l’épargne, aux retraites, à la santé. On se responsabilisera enfin sous le regard sévère (mais juste) de Blackrock, de Pfizer, d’Ourzoula et de tous les copains habillé en bleu atlantique. Chiche que l’on nous demandera d’apprendre l’ukrainien.
Et Branlotin, dans tout cela ? Eh bien le petit connard narcissique est parti tâter du muscle au soleil, photographié sur le yacht d’un énième oligarque (?), tout sourire, déjà bronzé, sans Jean-Bri. Ça va nous faire un combo cocaïne-vaseline au coucher du soleil, à n’en pas douter. Les feux de l’amour, avec le tandem Jolly-Boucheron en guests stars descendues en Falcon de la République.
La France coule, le sourire béat, les poumons pleins d’air pur, dans le bonheur d’une capitale sans bagnoles, sans racaille ouane-tou-sri, sans SDF, sans OQTF, sans subsahariens vendeurs de tour Eiffel, sans plus trop de violeurs pakis, mais avec plein de caméras réputées intelligentes, gavée de QR codes inquisiteurs en diable, avec du bleu poulaga à chaque carrefour, du piou-piou en gare, des bénévoles qui essaient encore de sourire aux couillons sportophiles venus de partout se faire plumer dans les restos à micro-ondes des quartiers encore épargnés par les grillages et les blocs de béton.
La France se noie parce qu’elle a bu la tasse dans une Seine plombée par les étrons, les rats crevés et les larmes des Gabin, des Audiard, des Blier, des Ventura et de tous les cadors d’un passé couillu et bien révolu. Un milliard et quatre cents millions pour permettre à Salvadorina Allende et à une ministre clitoridienne de jouir d’un bain pourri, infect, dégueulatoire. Tristes connes, pauvres athlètes.
Que se passera-t-il après tout cela ? Nul ne peut le dire. Les cartes de Madame Irma sont illisibles, tombées de la table, parties sous le tapis ou déjà bouffées par les rongeurs darwinisés par la règle du profit et du silence. Même les conjectureux de plateau nous parlent de concours de javelot ou de 400 mètres haies tant l’horizon est bouché – illisible, imprévisible, invisible.
La France, la France, la France... chienne aînée d’une Église wokisée, pute consentante de satrapes ricaneurs et lâches, cumshotée dans tous ses orifices, veinifiée à la pfizzerine, noyée dans la Cène, raccourcie à la Conciergerie... pauvre fille, qui fut si belle. Se remettra-t-elle de tous ces coups bas, ces avilissements, ces misères proprement médiévales ? 2025, année des funérailles, ou premier chapitre d’un nouveau récit ? Les deux, qui sait, mon Général ?
J.-M. M.
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Silver drachm from the reign of Kosrow I, Sassanid Empire, 531-579 AD
from The J. Paul Getty Museum
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Be Encouraged: God is Always Near
by John Bunyan (1628–1688)
Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him — Hebrews 11:6
He that believes in God as his God, believes God is ever present with him, according to his promises. In the worst times God is present with his people. And can there be any cause of heart-trouble to such souls as have always the presence of God with them, whose presence makes heaven? (Psalm 16:11). Surely, beloved, this will prevent heart-trouble, when a soul can act his faith, and firmly believe it.
God is always present with his people for gracious purposes, not as a mere spectator. He proportions and measures out their afflictions to them, that they may not be above their strength, nor more than they need (1 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Peter 1:6). All the afflictions of God’s people are measured by the hand of the most wise, most merciful and gracious God: all the malice of men and devils cannot add a drachm to the weight, nor a drop to the measure, beyond God’s appointment. He is present to order and fix the time of our sufferings; it is an hour of temptation (Revelation 3:10).
It is our loving Father who sets up the hourglass of the time of our troubles; he appoints their beginning, their duration, their end. He holds the glass in his own hand. All the powers on earth cannot bring trouble on us till the hour come, till the appointed time, nor continue our troubles longer than his time. “The scepter of the wicked will not remain over the land allotted to the righteous” (Psalm 125:3). God is present to [grant] some comforts with the cross, to relieve the bitterness of it; present to support the soul with inward strength. “On the day I called, you answered me; you made me bold with strength in my soul” (Psalm 138:3 NASB). God is present to sanctify affliction for good, and at length, in his good time, which is the best time, when he has perfected his own work in his people, he is present for their full deliverance.
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° • — CLOSED starter for roland ( @classiqals )
there was an energy in the air — apprehension. unease. zelenia wondered if it was due to so many new people in a place so very new to them. she quietly observed, walking around the room. her emerald gaze was piecing and — cold. her expression, stoic. her lips did not curve into a pleasant smile, nor did her eyes light up from wonder and amazement. everyone seemed merry and cheerful. excited for this new city, excited for the sights and the culture. except — there. her gaze settled on a man, off to the side with another. shoulders tense, eyes heavy with an exhaustion the oracle recognized from her own reflection.
the blonde stepped closer, hand taking a glass of wine and sipping on it as she watched the individual. was it him that had her interest peaked, or something about him that called to her? the unease in the air came from him, of that much zelenia would bet her last drachm. slowly, the oracle made her way towards him and by the time she was only a couple feet away; the individual he was speaking to left.
a moment of pause, before saying — “ you are weary. “ a statement, not a question. she was not wondering, she knew. “ heavy, the weight on your shoulders. “ her head tilted to the side, her eyes unmoving from him. no warmth was found in them, nor in her voice though her words would read as concern if they came from anybody else. “ dear kingling — what gives you grief? “
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Coin of the Day #48 (6/21/2024)
Let’s take a break from the Mediterranean for a sec…
Gupta Empire
AR Drachm - 14mm 2.10g
Kumaragupta I 415-455 AD
Uncertain Mint
Obverse Head of Kumaragupta I right
Reverse Brahmi legend
Stylized Garuda standing front
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Drachm (Coin) Depicting a Gorgon
Greek, early 5th century BCE
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It’s Chani who drops beside Paul. He knows by her proximity, closer than all others: thigh against his, a hand on his knee. The closest the Freemen come to touching him is brushing his cloak. Even Stilgard hesitates to clap Mahdi’s back.
The godhead is untouchable.
“Usul?”
Paul hums.
“Are you alright?”
He presses his against his eyelids, hard enough that colors burst. “I—
I keep Seeing it, Chani— —just another dream?— —Another life. Things that never were, and will never come to be.
“—I’m fine.”
Pinching the inside of his eyes he squints at the half-dozen remaining Harkonnen spice reservoirs. Another week, and commodity traders would strip the mélange within for the black market. Paul can’t afford for them to parcel it; he needs a stranglehold. When the Great Houses’ desperation precipitates, they’ll resort to the black market to avoid being planet-bound.
He’s Seen it.
Dropping his hand, he turns towards her. “Call Shai-Hulud. Offer the earth. Let him scatter it, and set fire to what remains.” Then, lower, he adds, “When the scavengers come, take their wealth slow. One drachm a day until they expire. Then, desiccate.”
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A far more extensive report, and the one that influenced Freud most powerfully, was that of the Italian neurologist Paolo Mantegazza, who practised as a doctor in Argentina and Paraguay in the 1850s and self-experimented with the local plant stimulants, guarana and coca. Unlike von Bibra, Mantegazza appreciated coca’s stimulant effects immediately and pursued them vigorously. ‘As soon as one chews one or two drachms’, he wrote in his 1859 monograph ‘On the Hygienic and Medical Values of Coca’,
the nervous excitement is always followed by movements that are exaggerated or violent, and always irregular; there is a general confusion of thoughts and muscular activity, while in the inebriety produced by coca it seems that the new strength gradually drenches one’s organism in every sense, as a sponge soaks itself with water. Thus the delight of the period consists almost completely in an increased consciousness of being alive.
Mantegazza found in coca not a productive stimulant for the sober self, but a radically altered state of consciousness. Unlike caffeine, higher doses brought not overstimulation but ever more pleasurable and remarkable effects. By chewing 8 drachms in a day and a further 10 the same evening, about the most he could physically manage, he attained what he called ‘the delirium of coca intoxication, and I must confess that I found this pleasure by far superior to all other physical sensations previously known to me’.
He recorded his pulse before the evening dose at 83 per minute; half an hour later it had risen to 120. He felt supremely happy, and on closing his eyes was presented with ‘the most splendid and unexpected phantasmagoria’, kaleidoscopic images succeeding each other too fast to record, or even to communicate by announcing them in rapid fire to the colleague beside him. He attempted to transcribe them, missing ten for every one he managed to capture:
A cave of lace through the entrance to which can be seen, toward the back, a golden tortoise seated on a throne made of soap . . . A battalion of steel pens fighting against an army of corkscrews . . . Lightning, consisting of glass threads, piercing a whole Parmesan cheese crowned with ivy and berries . . . A saffron inkwell from which is born an emerald mushroom studded with rose fruits . . . A ladder made of blotting paper lined with rattlesnakes from which several red rabbits with green ears come jumping down . . .
Mantegazza embraced coca’s euphoric and visionary properties, which convinced him that ‘all this will be great science in the near future’. The desire and capacity for ecstasy was a constant throughout human history, but he believed that its limits were still unexplored. On his return to Italy he became a medical professor in Pavia, founded the Italian Anthropological Society and began work on a massive survey of inebriation and human nature, which ran to 1,200 pages when it was eventually published in 1871.
But cocaine had yet another quality: as well as an anti-depressant and an energy booster, it was a powerful euphoriant. Freud quoted Mantegazza’s claim that it produced a ‘state of greatly increased happiness’: during the peak of his coca intoxication he had scribbled, ‘God is unjust because he made man incapable of sustaining the effects of coca all life long. I would rather have a lifespan of ten years with coca than one of 1000000000 centuries without!’
-- Mike Jay, Psychonauts
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another of frank's bold worldbuilding choices: the fremen measure water in liters, decaliters, and drachms (with binary fractions)
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fun with explosives
(originally posted in 2009 on annakatherine.com, and reposted in 2012 on the Anna Katherine co-tumblr)
There’s a lot of stuff you buy from stores, or wholesalers, or specialists, or whathaveyou, instead of making yourself – for instance, I bet most people these days don’t really know what goes into making silver bullets.
This wasn’t always the case, obviously, and for a really fun game of “how can I shoehorn this neat thing into a book?”, check out the “receipt” (recipe) books from the Victorians and earlier. Middle-class Victorians, leaving aside their crazy “we must have a different chair for every possible activity we can think of” method of interior decoration, were all about the reusing and repurposing of materials, and never wanting to buy what they could possibly create in their own home. So when I look at the late Regency (heading into Victorian) book The New Family Receipt-Book: containing eight hundred truly valuable receipts In various Branches of Domestic Economy (1820), my heart kind of goes pitter-pat with the mischief I could get my characters into. For instance, on pg 224 we have:
Thunder Powder. Take separately three parts of good dry saltpetre, two parts of dry salt of tartar, and pound them well together in a mortar; then add thereto one part, or rather more, of flower of brimstone, and take care to pound and mix the whole perfectly together: put this composition into a bottle with a glass stopper, for use. Put about two drachms of this mixture in an iron spoon, over a moderate fire, but not in the flame; in a short time it will melt, and go off with an explosion like thunder or a loaded cannon.
“A bottle with a glass stopper, for use”? “Go off with an explosion”? I’m thinking of about five ways to abuse this recipe right now, and I don’t even fight demons for a living. Some research with a relevant dictionary of chemistry, a little updating to match your time period, and you’ve got a nifty trick to show the reader and a sly way of getting your characters past those werewolves on the corner. A win all the way around.
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Informations Complémentaires
✮ Le forum se base donc sur la série Fate, avec de petites touches de Winx Club (réadaptée à la série live action), du Sorceleur de Andrzej Sapkowski, de A Court of Thorns and Roses de Sarah J. Maas, et de la trilogie The Folk of the Air de Holly Black. L’action se situe dix années après la saison 2 de Fate. Il vous sera alors possible d’explorer les royaumes de SOLARIA, LINPHEA, ERAKLYON, d'en découvrir les différentes COURS FÉÉRIQUES et bien évidemment pénétrer au sein de l’Université élitiste d’ALFÉA formant les soldats et dirigeants de demain.
✮ L’Autre Monde, de son vrai nom Argaia, en contradiction avec le Premier Monde qui est le nôtre, est une terre où règne la magie. Ils vous sera possible d’y interpréter une Fée, un Sorcier ou un Humain. Plusieurs Courts de fées existent, réparties entre les trois royaumes : DAWN, DAY et NIGHT COURTS à Solaria, SUMMER et WINTER COURTS à Eraklyon et SPRING et AUTUMN COURT à Linphéa.
✮ Il y a mille ans, Marion Amarantha, l'unique fée au pouvoir de la Flamme Divine du Grand Dragon, a tenté de conquérir tout Argaia, mais fut arrêtée par la première Compagnie de Lumière lors de la Grande Bataille de Domino. Des cendres du royaume de Domino surgissent trois royaumes. Deux gouvernés par des fées, SOLARIA et LINPHEA, et un par des mortels ERAKLYON. Ces royaumes recueillent en leur sein plusieurs cours féériques, chacune associée à un élément magique en particulier. Celles-ci fonctionnent telles de petits royaumes au sein de leur pays, dirigées par des Hauts Seigneurs qui conseillent leur souverain respectif tout en respectant les lois féériques établies par la Haute Court qui les régit.
✮ Les familles royales ainsi que celles des Hauts Seigneurs seront jouables. Il vous sera donc possible d'en rejoindre la branche principale ou d'imaginer une branche annexe avec les complots, secrets de famille, alliances et toutes autres choses qui pourraient vous inspirer. Une monnaie commune a été mise en place, le Drachme.
✮ Si les humains se battent à l’épée, les Fées ont, quant à elles, un élément inné qui se révèle généralement au cours de leur adolescence de façon impromptue : l’EAU, la LUMIÈRE, l’AIR, l’ESPRIT, la NATURE, la GLACE et le FEU. Quant aux Sorciers Sanguinaires, de leur véritable appellation les Héritiers du Phoenix, ils emploient une magie non pas issue du Feu Blanc du Grand Dragon, mais du Feu Noir du Grand Phoenix. Cette magie se fit nommer la magie du sang, d'où leur surnom.
✮ Des précisions sur ces points et bien d’autres seront apportées au fur et à mesure, selon les questions et les avis bienveillants reçus.
#projet rpg#forumactif#forum rpg#forum winx#forum fate#forum witcher#forum acotar#cosaf#winx club#fate the winx saga
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Coin of the Day #156 (10/7/2024)
I wish the obverse was in better condition on this one, I think the reverse is lovely… (it’s also BIG)
Roman Province - Egypt
AE Drachm - 34mm 16.34g
Hadrian 117-118 AD
Alexandria Mint
Obverse AYT KAIC TPAIANOC AΔPIANOC CEB
Head of Hadrian right, laureate, drapery on shoulder
Reverse L B
Hadrian in quadriga right, holding eagle sceptre and branch
RPC III 5098
#coin of the day#roman empire#roman province#ancient rome#hadrian#alexandria#egypt#roman coins#coin#coins#numismatics#ancient coins#ancient egypt
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Ooh ooh time for one of my favorite poems:
THE CHAOS
GEORGE NOLST TRENITÉ (1870–1946)
Dearest 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,
Say—said, pay—paid, 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, studding-sail, 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.
From ‘desire’: desirable—admirable from ‘admire’,
Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier,
Topsham, brougham, renown, but known,
Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone,
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel.
Gertrude, German, wind and wind,
Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind,
Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather,
Reading, Reading, heathen, heather.
This phonetic labyrinth
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth.
Have you ever yet endeavoured
To pronounce revered and severed,
Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul,
Peter, petrol and patrol?
Billet does not end like ballet;
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Banquet is not nearly parquet,
Which exactly rhymes with khaki.
Discount, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward,
Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet?
Right! Your pronunciation’s OK.
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Is your R correct in higher?
Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia.
Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot,
Buoyant, minute, but minute.
Say abscission with precision,
Now: position and transition;
Would it tally with my rhyme
If I mentioned paradigm?
Twopence, threepence, tease are easy,
But cease, crease, grease and greasy?
Cornice, nice, valise, revise,
Rabies, but lullabies.
Of such puzzling words as nauseous,
Rhyming well with cautious, tortious,
You’ll envelop lists, I hope,
In a linen envelope.
Would you like some more? You’ll have it!
Affidavit, David, davit.
To abjure, to perjure. Sheik
Does not sound like Czech but ache.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed but vowed.
Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover.
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice,
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal,
Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit
Rhyme with ‘shirk it’ and ‘beyond it’,
But it is not hard to tell
Why it’s pall, mall, but Pall Mall.
Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron,
Timber, climber, bullion, lion,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor,
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
Has the A of drachm and hammer.
Pussy, hussy and possess,
Desert, but desert, address.
Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants
Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants.
Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb,
Cow, but Cowper, some and home.
‘Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker’,
Quoth he, ‘than liqueur or liquor’,
Making, it is sad but true,
In bravado, much ado.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant.
Arsenic, specific, scenic,
Relic, rhetoric, hygienic.
Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close,
Paradise, rise, rose, and dose.
Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle,
Make the latter rhyme with eagle.
Mind! Meandering but mean,
Valentine and magazine.
And I bet you, dear, a penny,
You say mani-(fold) like many,
Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier,
Tier (one who ties), but tier.
Arch, archangel; pray, does erring
Rhyme with herring or with stirring?
Prison, bison, treasure trove,
Treason, hover, cover, cove,
Perseverance, severance. Ribald
Rhymes (but piebald doesn’t) with nibbled.
Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw,
Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw.
Don’t be down, my own, but rough it,
And distinguish buffet, buffet;
Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon,
Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn.
Say in sounds correct and sterling
Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling.
Evil, devil, mezzotint,
Mind the Z! (A gentle hint.)
Now you need not pay attention
To such sounds as I don’t mention,
Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws,
Rhyming with the pronoun yours;
Nor are proper names included,
Though I often heard, as you did,
Funny rhymes to unicorn,
Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan.
No, my maiden, coy and comely,
I don’t want to speak of Cholmondeley.
No. Yet Froude compared with proud
Is no better than McLeod.
But mind trivial and vial,
Tripod, menial, denial,
Troll and trolley, realm and ream,
Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme.
Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely
May be made to rhyme with Raleigh,
But you’re not supposed to say
Piquet rhymes with sobriquet.
Had this invalid invalid
Worthless documents? How pallid,
How uncouth he, couchant, looked,
When for Portsmouth I had booked!
Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite,
Paramour, enamoured, flighty,
Episodes, antipodes,
Acquiesce, and obsequies.
Please don’t monkey with the geyser,
Don’t peel ’taters with my razor,
Rather say in accents pure:
Nature, stature and mature.
Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly,
Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly,
Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan,
Wan, sedan and artisan.
The TH will surely trouble you
More than R, CH or W.
Say then these phonetic gems:
Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames.
Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham,
There are more but I forget ’em—
Wait! I’ve got it: Anthony,
Lighten your anxiety.
The archaic word albeit
Does not rhyme with eight—you see it;
With and forthwith, one has voice,
One has not, you make your choice.
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger;
Then say: singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age,
Hero, heron, query, very,
Parry, tarry, fury, bury,
Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth,
Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath.
Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners,
Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners
Holm you know, but noes, canoes,
Puisne, truism, use, to use?
Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual,
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height,
Put, nut, granite, and unite.
Reefer does not rhyme with deafer,
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
Hint, pint, senate, but sedate.
Gaelic, Arabic, pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific;
Tour, but our, dour, succour, four,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit,
Next omit, which differs from it
Bona fide, alibi
Gyrate, dowry and awry.
Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion,
Rally with ally; yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay!
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver.
Never guess—it is not safe,
We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf.
Starry, granary, canary,
Crevice, but device, and eyrie,
Face, but preface, then grimace,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging;
Ear, but earn; and ere and tear
Do not rhyme with here but heir.
Mind the O of off and often
Which may be pronounced as orphan,
With the sound of saw and sauce;
Also soft, lost, cloth and cross.
Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting?
Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting.
Respite, spite, consent, resent.
Liable, but Parliament.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work.
A of valour, vapid vapour,
S of news (compare newspaper),
G of gibbet, gibbon, gist,
I of antichrist and grist,
Differ like diverse and divers,
Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers.
Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll,
Polish, Polish, poll and poll.
Pronunciation—think of Psyche!—
Is a paling, stout and spiky.
Won’t it make you lose your wits
Writing groats and saying ‘grits’?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel
Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale,
Islington, and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Don’t you think so, reader, rather,
Saying lather, bather, father?
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough?
Hiccough has the sound of sup.
My advice is: GIVE IT UP!
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