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 Marriage, foliage, mirage, age. Query does not rime with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth; Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath. Though the difference seems little, We say actual, but victual, Seat, sweat, chaste, caste; Leigh, eight, height; Put, nut; granite, but unite. Reefer does not rime with "deafer," Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Dull, bull; Geoffrey, George; ate, late; Hint, pint; senate, but sedate; Scenic, Arabic, pacific; Science, conscience, scientific; Tour, but our, and succour, four; Gas, alas and Arkansas! Sea, idea, guinea, area, Psalm; Maria, but malaria; Youth, south, southern; cleanse and clean; Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion with battalion, Sally 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! Heron; granary, canary; Crevice, and device, and eyrie; Face but preface, but efface, Phlegm, phlegmatic; ass, glass, bass; Large, but target, gin, give, verging; Ought, out, joust and scour, but scourging; Ear, but earn; and wear and tear Do not rime with "here", but "ere". Seven is right, but so is even; Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen; Monkey, donkey; clerk and jerk; Asp, grasp, wasp; and cork and work. Pronunciation—think of psyche!— Is a paling, stout and spikey;