Ki Ryn said:
Ok Zhury, show me an example of a real american-english word that ends in "elf" but does not sound like "self".
If you are just making stuff up, you might as well say that "Melf" is pronsounce "Petunia", it's just spelled funny...
A --
Instead of a pharaoh in heaven came Caesar
Down the aisle, Augustus, quiet as aether.
For Michael, the head of the angels in heaven
Had control of the weather, heather, and leaven.
B --
The lamb was in debt of him from the womb
Who never had need of a comb in the tomb.
C --
The rock of science could indict
The scent of the yacht in the night.
D --
Rembrandt, the judge,
Had the lodge with the fudge.
E --
If to love the sterile canoe you choose,
Then what you have loose, you soon will lose.
F --
The one silent “f” is found not with
First, second, third, or fourth, but fifth.
G --
The gnome would deign to right the sign.
The gnat’s design was a paradigm.
H --
The hour when Bach ran out of thyme
Was an ache for the myrrh’s heir that was trying to rhyme.
And to whet the scheme of the treacherous yacht
Which wondered whether its plans were of naught,
Was the naughty one which sought a fight
And wanted to know, what, where, when, and why.
I --
The lieutenant, I sent,
In lieu of a friend.
J --
The only silent “j” that I could afford
Was the questionable one in the word fjord.
K --
Do you know of the knife
In the knot of the knight?
L --
The colonel was a fellow as calm as could be,
And watched the folk eat salmon, until he was free.
M --
The only silent “m” in our language of phonics,
Seems to be the one in the word mnemonic.
N --
If you sing solemn hymns to our God above,
You will not be damned, but folded in love.
O --
Leonard, you said a young group would come,
In theory, in jeopardy of crayons in their thumbs.
P --
A pseudo corps of psychics, Tina,
Sang psalms to rid pneumonia.
Q --
Could “q” make a racket?
It’s only silent in racquet.
R --
In San Bernardino, when you visit
Next month, in February,
Look up vernacular
In the library.
S --
The army corps you see in the aisle
Are from an island they call an isle.
T --
At Christmas, in the castle, if you whistle,
You’ll get a buffet and catch a thistle.
U --
Your four will build
If you pour for the guild.
V --
Very vexing as vampires’ teeth,
Are the very few verbs with evasive “v”s.
W --
The two who sew, named Wright,
Can use their swords to write.
X --
It is a serious faux-pas, you know,
To pronounce the “x” in the word “faux”.
Y --
This one’s a stretch, but you know that “tan”
Can be often rhymed with the word crayon.
Z --
A rendezvous, I always wished,
To be arranged with the man Liszt.
It'd be wrong of me to mention "twelfth" as being an almost silent 'f' in a 'lf' combination.
Greg
