Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve
friend and fiend, alive and live
liberty, library, heave and heaven
Rachel, ache, 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
rime with "shirk it" and "beyond it"
but it is not hard to tell
why it is 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, glamour
and enamour rime with "hammer"
pussy, hussy, and possess
desert but desert, adress
golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants
hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants
river, rival, tomb, bomb, comb
doll and roll and some and home
stranger does not rime with anger
neither does devour with clangour
soul, but foul and gaunt, but aunt
font, front, wont, want, grand and grant
shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger
then say singer, ginger, linge
real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge
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, cath
my oppugnant, keen oppugners
bowing - bowing banjo-tuners
in their yachts or their 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 rime with "deafer"
feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer
dull, bull, Geoffry, George, ate, late
hint, pint, senate, but sedate
scenic, Arabic, Pacific
science, conscience, scientific
tour, but our and succour, four
gad, 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 ralph
heron, granary, canary
crevice and device and Eyrie
face but preface, but grimace
phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass
bass, large, target, gin, give, verging
ougth, 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, demesne, cork, work
pronunciation think of psyche!
It's a paling, stout and spikey
won't it make you lose your wits
writing groats and saying groats?
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 rimes with "enough"
though, through, plough, cough, hough, or tough?
hiccough has the sound of "cup"
My advise is: give it up!