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  1. Midnight Star
    I know a different version to that one, that's similar but not exactly the same, I think it's actually the same but a little shorter. I've practised it a bit but seriously, your one is so much longer. I can get most due to my practice with this one but I'm still getting tripped up by some unfamiliar words. Is it bad I actually really like these poems? I spent days learning how to pronounce all the words correctly in the one below:

    English is tough stuff

    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!!!
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 24, 2014 in forum: Literature
  2. Midnight Star
    Ooh this looks interesting, I like it though I think I prefer red like roses to this song.

    There appears to have a bit of foreshadowing, it looks like all the antagonists that were revealed at the end of last series will get to fight the girls and the twins from the yellow trailer will make an appearance.

    There seemed to be quite a bit shown of Phyrra being badass as usual, though this time Jaune seems to be supporting her instead of vice versa. She's also fighting Cardin's team, which could simply be in the tournament or they could betray the team but they are in the falling from the sky scene though with everyone else. Hmm~

    And there seems to be a distinct lack of Nora and Ren.
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 22, 2014 in forum: Movies & Media
  3. Midnight Star
    Not necessarily, for example I stopped growing when I was 12 and most 15 year olds are taller than me, I'm 20 and could pass for 15. Plus you do get some very tall/mature looking kids that are actually 15. A lot of girls stop growing at around that age so if she had a youthful look to accompany that as well, it might not have been that hard.
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 19, 2014 in forum: Current Events
  4. Midnight Star
    Post

    Solve:

    Hmm death??
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 14, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  5. Midnight Star
    If nobody revives it and it gets locked then yeah, you win that particular LP2P thread~
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 12, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  6. Midnight Star
    Isn't that the point? You win if you kill it off as you were the last person to post~
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 11, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  7. Midnight Star
    I've got millions of pumpkins if you would like them as well as lots of potions of swiftness (and 3 potions of fire resistance), where would you like them?
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 8, 2014 in forum: The Playground
  8. Midnight Star
    Did you let all my sheep escape??? :(
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 8, 2014 in forum: The Playground
  9. Midnight Star
    You guys are almost at 50, now who will get it?
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 7, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  10. Midnight Star
    I don't think you can go on the server with a pirated version though.
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 7, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  11. Midnight Star
    Well it's over halfway to 50 now.
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 7, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  12. Midnight Star
    Likewise~

    Good luck everyone ^,^
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 7, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  13. Midnight Star
    Btw I've been wondering what is the texture pack that everyone appears to be using as mine doesn't look like the screenshots that have been posted.
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 3, 2014 in forum: The Playground
  14. Midnight Star
    We need to set up a trading outpost, that would be really good. I like farming and am currently farming a lot to get pumpkins, sugar-cane, cactus, wheat and carrots, which I would happily trade. I would love to actually also start brewing potions that I can give to other people (I probably wouldn't use them myself) but like gabr, I wouldn't go into the nether as I would just die so I'd need to trade for the ingredients.

    Things I have to trade
    Wheat
    Bread
    Carrots
    Sugar-cane
    Sugar
    Paper
    Cactus
    Pumpkins
    Wool (I can make dyes if wanted)

    Things I want to trade for
    Blaze rod
    Soulsand
    Netherwart
    Magma cream
    Redstone
    Melon seeds
    ...maybe more depending on what's on offer.
    Post by: Midnight Star, May 3, 2014 in forum: The Playground
  15. Midnight Star
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    Charahub

    Just wanted to add that with the links to other characters bit, you can also link to other people's characters if they've also made a profile on charahub that you are able to view (either public or hidden but you have the link), which could be handy.
    Post by: Midnight Star, Apr 28, 2014 in forum: Role Play Discussion
  16. Midnight Star
    Have you ever played RISK? That ends up with someone upset more often than not.
    Post by: Midnight Star, Apr 27, 2014 in forum: The Spam Zone
  17. Midnight Star
    From what Sara said, that doesn't make sense to me as surely that would mean schools that are already doing well will get better funding and better resources to help the students, so the students will be able to do better, conversely schools that are doing badly, won't be able to get the funding to get better resources to be able to improve. It basically says ones that were already doing well will get all the money but the ones who were struggling will just keep struggling even more.
    Post by: Midnight Star, Apr 25, 2014 in forum: Current Events
  18. Midnight Star
    Out of curiosity, what mode will it be set to? Survival or creative and if survival, what difficulty? I've never done multiplayer minecraft before so I'm not certain how it works.
    Post by: Midnight Star, Apr 25, 2014 in forum: The Playground
  19. Midnight Star
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    Charahub

    Okay so I've just discovered this new site that could be very useful for anyone with lots of characters called Charahub. It basically allows you to create a directory of all your different characters, so you can keep all your information about the character in one place that's easy to refer back to. It allows you to make them really detailed so you can just check it to make sure you are being consistent. You can make the profiles private (only visible to you - good for jotting down future ideas for the character you want to keep hidden), hidden (only visible with a link - good for showing the rp creator your ideas) or public (visible to everyone - good for helping others in the rp keep track of your characters).

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    It allows you to go into a lot of detail (that list extends down), add pictures and add links to other characters. You can put characters into groups to keep ones from the same rp/story together.

    With the free account you can store up to 100 characters, plus 2 more with every person you refer and can put up 10 images per character. Thought it is possible to increase all this if you need more for $3 a month.

    Just thought that some of you might find this handy~


    Thread by: Midnight Star, Apr 25, 2014, 7 replies, in forum: Role Play Discussion
  20. Midnight Star
    KHV Username: Midnight Star
    Time Zone: GMT (GMT+1 in summer)

    Nintendo Network
    3DS Friend's Code: 2595-1373-6238
    Games you play: Pokémon X, Professor Layton (Mircle Mask & Azran Legacy), Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario Bros. 2

    Steam
    Steam ID: midnightarcher

    Discord: Midnight Star
    Post by: Midnight Star, Apr 24, 2014 in forum: Gaming