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 with 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,
does, 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 zethyt, helfer.
mint, pint, senate and sedate;
scenic, arabic, pacific,
science, conscience, scientific.