Utsav Rajoria on Clubhouse

Bio

*Qualified English teacher and IELTS instructor from India living and working in Thailand
*Amateur singer
*Bachelor degree in Aeronautical Engineering


*I take it you already know*
Of tough and bough and cough and dough Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, laugh, and through.
And cork and work and card and ward And font and front and word and sword Well done! And now if you wish, perhaps To learn of less familiar traps,
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird. And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead–
For goodness sakes don’t call it deed.
Watch out for meat and great and threat, They rhyme with suite and straight and debt. A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there,
And dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there’s dose and rose and lose– Just look them up–and goose and choose,
And do and go, then thwart and cart. Come, come, I’ve hardly made a start! A dreadful language? Man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five.

* The Pronunciation Poem
Here is some pronunciation. Ration never rhymes with nation, Say prefer, but preferable, Comfortable and vegetable,
B must not be heard in doubt, Debt and dumb both leave it out. In the words psychology,
Psychic and psychiatry,
You must never sound the p. Psychiatrist you call the man
Who cures the complex, if he can. In architect, chi is k.
In arch it is the other way.
Please remember to say iron
So that it’ll rhyme with lion. Advertisers advertise, Advertisements will put you wise. Time when work is done is leisure, Fill it up with useful pleasure. Accidental, accident,
Sound the g in ignorant.
Relative, but relation,
Then say creature, but creation.
Say the a in gas quite short
Bought remember rhymes with thwart, Drought must always rhyme with bout, In daughter leave the “gh” out.
Wear a boot upon your foot.
Root can never rhyme with soot.
In muscle, sc is s,
In muscular, it’s sk, yes!
Choir must always rhyme with wire, That again will rhyme with liar. Then remember it’s address
With an accent like possess.
G in sign must silent be,
In signature, pronounce the g.
Please remember, say towards
Just as if it rhymed with boards. Weight’s like wait, but not like height. Which should always rhyme with might. Sew is just the same as so,
Tie a ribbon in a bow.
When you meet the queen you bow, Which again must rhyme with how.
In perfect English make a start.
Learn this little rhyme by heart.*