P* Pip, pop, pip, pop Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers – a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers – where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
B Black, babbling brooks broke brawling o’er their bounds.
T* A tell tale tattling torment that troubled all the town.
D Down dingy doorways dived the dastard.
Ch* Cherish cherries.
J Judge not that ye be not judged.
K* Sink; think; wink.
G Gregory going gaily, galloped gallantly to the gate.
F* Four-fifths of the fifers are famed for their fun.
V The vile vision lived vividly. Nephew (note the “ph” is pronounced as “v”). The voice of many waters and the noise of thunder.
Th* The Thane saw the thief in the thicket and thrashed and thumped him on the path.
Th These then are the Father and the Mother of thy Brother.
S* She sells sea shells on the sea shore.
Z The zeal was blazoned from zone to zone.
Zh* Measure; pleasure; treasure.
M* Minim; minimum;
N Noun; night; new
Ng* Singing; playing; dancing.
R Round and round the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
determiner + whole + noun
all (of) + determiner + noun
She's eaten a whole loaf.4. uncountable nouns(NOT ... all a loaf.
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Nursery rhymes are songs and verses for children. If you love playing with words you will enjoy Mother Goose nursery rhymes, but you may also be surprised at how violent some of the rhymes are. For example, this nursery rhyme about an old woman who lived in a shoe ends with a violent whipping:
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There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,
She had so many children, she didn't know what to do;
She gave them some broth without any bread,
She kissed them all gently and sent them to bed.
I was eight years old when I first read Spike Milliagan's "Silly Verses For Kids". It was my friend's copy. We used to read it together during playtime. I liked it so much I asked my parents to buy me a copy of the book, and eventually they did. I still have the book, many years later, in a box somewhere in the attic of my mother's house. Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was an Irish citizen who was one of Britain's best-loved comedians. He made radio and television shows, as well as writing books of verse and his war-time memoirs. |
There are holes in the sky
where the rain gets in,
but they are ever so small,
that's why rain is thin.
String
is a most peculiar thing.
Rope is thicker,
but string is quicker.
Mary Pugh was nearly two
when she went out of doors.
She went out standing up, she did,
and came back on all fours.
The moral of the story, please meditate and pause -
never send a baby out with loosely waisted drawers.
It was hard work, but cheerfully undertaken! The verdict was that it was quite difficult to make words because you had to think about connections and the position of letters on the board, not just the letters in your hand.
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"Winners evaluate themselves on what they are, not on what other people think they should be. They do not allow themselves to be guided by other people's standards or beliefs. Winners do not allow others to act as their judge and jury.
"Losers constantly worry about what they think other people are thinking about them. For instance, if your boss looks at you and frowns or if he sounds a little gruff in the morning, that's no reason to think he's angry with you.
"He probably had a few cross words with his wife about the household bills before he came to work...
"I'll admit that years ago I too, used to be concerned about what other people might think of me. Then I happened to see a movie in which the hero, an Easterner, had come west to marry his sweetheart, a girl born and raised on a Texas ranch.
"One of the cowboys, the ranch foreman, made fun of the Easterner because of his city clothes and his city ways. He even challenged him to a fight, but the Easterner refused.
"Aren't you going to fight him?" his fiancée asked.
"But what will people think of you?" she asked.
"I'm not responsible for what other people think of me," he answered. "I'm responsible only for what I think of myself."
"Although I have forgotten the rest of that movie and I'm not sure whether the hero was Gary Cooper or Gregory Peck or someone else, I've never forgotten that one statement. It has helped me tremendously through the years in my relationships with other people.
"You see, to worry and fret and stew about what other people might think about you is a complete waste of time. You never become what other people think of you. You become only what you think of yourself..."
Hidden Power, p. 71
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