AbielleRose

ENGLISH IS TOUGH STUFF (sorry, I know this is a bit long, but it's pretty true!) 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 plaque 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 your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, 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 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. Foeffer 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, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. 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. Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough -- Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!! -- Author Unknown

Jeff Dunham's Very Special Christmas Special

Nice contrast in films!

*Can't control curiosity and highlight's spoilers* Sweet! Now I can't wait to get it!

Haha, will do! If I did I don't think it would bother me too much. Stuff like that dosn't scare me, but if I watch a movie like Dante's Peak or Volcano I have horrible nightmares. Volcanoes are one thing I can't handle.

Good to hear! I'm in need of a good creep-out tonight

I confess, I've never seen the Blair Witch Project. Maybe that should go in the cart too... I love movies like that as long as the acting is good.

I may need to rent this along with Life of Brian for tonight.

Ooh! I've been wanting to see that! Did you like it or was it too out there for your taste? Office Space

It made my day today I agree, they are very important. One of my favorites is a silver one with an Alamo charm that my dad got for me when he and my stepmom visited the Alamo in San Antonio, TX. I haven't been able to use it because I'm too scared of losing it!

Welcome to the forum Michael

I picked up a really cute metal bookmark today in Barnes and Noble. It is painted turquoise with the quote "Dreams are the touchstones of our character." by Thoreau etched into it with beaded tassles that have moon and star beads over turquoise and silver ribbon.

Updated Reading List for 2010 TBR: 1. Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux 2. The Glass Lake- Maeve Binchy 3. Little Women- Louisa May Alcott 4. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox- Maggie O' Farrell 5. The Historian- Elizabeth Kostova 6. Essays and Poems- Ralph Waldo Emerson 7. The Divine Comedy- Dante Alighieri 8. The House of the Seven Gables- Nathaniel Hawthorne Yet To Obtain: 1. Bitten (The Women of the Underworld Series)- Kelly Armstrong 2. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (series) - Lauren Willig 3. The Shopaholic Series- Jane Kinsella 4. The Help- Kathryn Stockett 5. The Inkheart Trilogy- Cornelia Funk 6. Salem's Lot- Stephen King 7. The Divinci Code- Dan Brown 8. Interview with the Vampire- Ann Rice 9. Mr. Darcey's Daughters- Elizabeth Aston 10. The Last Witchfinder- James Morrow 11. The Witches of Eastwick- John Updike 12. Of Mice and Men- John Steinback 13. Mysteries of the Benjamin Society- Trenton Lee Stewart 14. Witch and Wizard- James Patterson 15. Her Fearful Symmetry- Audrey Niffenegger 16. Burned- P.C. and Kristen Cast (to be released in 2010) 17. The Break-up Club- Melissa Senate 18. Oliver Twist- Charles Dickens 19. Nicholas Nickleby- Charles Dickens 20. A Christmas Carol- Charles Dickens 21. David Copperfield- Charles Dickens 22. A Tale of Two Cities- Charles Dickens 23. Great Expectations- Charles Dickens 24. Running With Scissors- Augusten Burroughs 25. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series- Rick Riordan (borrowed from a friend) 25. The Shack- William P. Young 26. Fallen- Lauren Kate 27. Complete works of Edgar Allan Poe 28. Breathless- Dean Koontz 29. The Last Lecture- Randy Pausch 30. The White Queen- Philippa Gregory 31. Breakfast At Tiffany's- Truman Capote 32. Othello- William Shakespeare 33. Romeo and Juliette- William Shakespeare 34. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley 35. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings- Maya Angelou 36. Sundays at Tiffany's- James Patterson 37. The Shining- Stephen King 38. The Keeper- Natasha Mostert 39. Philippa Gregory - The Constant Princess 40. The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Barnes and Noble Classics Edition) To Re-Read 1. A Child Called It- David Pezer 2. The entire works of Jane Austen 3. Harry Potter 1-7- J.K. Rowling 4. P.S. I Love You- Cecelia Ahren 5. The Time Traveler's Wife- Audrey Niffenegger 6. The entire Sookie Stackhouse Series- Charlene Harris 7. The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare 8. Wicked- Gregory Maguire 9. The Stephanie Plum Series- Janet Evanovich 10. The Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning 11. Mr. B. Gone- Clive Barker 12. Where the Red Fern Grows- Wilson Rawls (Titles highlighted in red are books I have purchaced since making this list)

Broiled cod with homemade tomato soup and salad

Granted, but it is very loud and drives you crazy. I wish I could go ice skating today.

Haha! I completely agree! It was (unfortunately) the best of the worst last night.

You watched Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin Eve too?

Saw marathon.

That is one of the cutest movies! Just watching some Friends Season 2 now.

Jesse's Girl- Rick Springfield. I loath this song more than any other out there.

KIDS: AND THE ORIGINS OF LOVE "Cupid kissed God and that got the ball rollin'." Julio, age 9 "One of the Greek lady gods got a crush on one of the Greek man gods. he tried to hit her with lightning and thunderbolts, but he just couldn't get her away from him ... After a while, they became the first married gods. Robbie, age 8 CONCERNING WHY LOVE HAPPENS BETWEEN TWO PARTICULAR PEOPLE "One of the people has freckles and so he finds somebody else who has freckles too." Andrew, age 6 "No one is sure why it happens, but I heard it has something to do with how you smell ...That's why perfume and deodorant are so popular. Mae, age 9 ON WHAT FALLING IN LOVE IS LIKE "Like an avalanche where you have to run for your life." John, age 9 "If falling in love is anything like learning how to spell, I don't want to do it. It takes too long." Glenn, age 7 ON THE ROLE OF BEAUTY AND HANDSOMENESS IN LOVE "If you want to be loved by somebody who isn't already in your family, it doesn't hurt to be beautiful." Anita C., age 8 "It isn't always just how you look. Look at me. I'm handsome like anything and I haven't got anybody to marry me yet." Brian, age 7 "Beauty is skin deep. But how rich you are can last a long time." Christine, age 9 REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE OF LOVE "Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too." Greg, age 8 HOW DO PEOPLE IN LOVE TYPICALLY BEHAVE? "Mooshy ... like puppy dogs ... except puppy dogs don't wag their tails nearly as much." Arnold, age 10 "When a person gets kissed for the first time, they fall down and they don't get up for at least an hour." Wendy, age 8 "All of a sudden, the people get movies fever so they can sit together in the dark." Sherm, age 8 CONCERNING WHY LOVERS OFTEN HOLD HANDS "They want to make sure their rings don't fall off because they paid good money for them." Gavin, age 8 "They are just practicing for when they might have to walk down the aisle someday and do the holy matchimony thing." John, age 9 CONFIDENTIAL OPINIONS ABOUT LOVE "I'm in favor of love as long as it doesn't happen when 'Dinosaurs' is on television." Jill, age 6 "Love is foolish ... but I still might try it sometime." Floyd, age 9 "Yesterday I kissed a girl in a private place ... We were behind a tree." Carey, age 7 "Love will find you, even if you are trying to hide from it. I've been trying to hide from it since I was five, but the girls keep finding me." Dave, age 8 "I'm not rushing into being in love. I'm finding fourth grade hard enough." Regina, age 10 THE PERSONAL QUALITIES YOU NEED TO HAVE IN ORDER TO BE A GOOD LOVER "Sensitivity don't hurt." Robbie, age 8 "One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills." Ava, age 8 SOME SUREFIRE WAYS TO MAKE A PERSON FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU "Tell them that you own a whole bunch of candy stores." Del, age 6 "Shake your hips and hope for the best." Camille, age 9 "Yell out that you love them at the top of your lungs ... and don't worry if their parents are right there." Manuel, age 8 "Don't do things like have smelly, green sneakers. You might get attention, but attention ain't the same thing as love." Alonzo, age 9 "One way is to take the girl out to eat. Make sure it's something she likes to eat. French fries usually works for me." Bart, age 9