The Blue Mosque is one of the mostfamous buildings in Turkey. It is usually called the Sultan Ahmet Camii, after the name of the man who had it built. This name was also given to the part of İstanbul that the mosque is in.
This is called Sultanahmet, and is one of the oldest parts of İstanbul. The Blue Mosque was built in 1619. One of the most beautiful things in the building are the 21,043 blue tiles, which give the mosque its name. There are also 260 very beautiful windows, and 36 heavy doors. There are many mosques in İstanbul, but the Blue Mosque is easy to see. This is because it has six minarets and not the usual one or two. The only other mosque in the world with more minarets is in Mecca which has seven. Sultan Ahmet also had this mosque built.

It's not enough that I should succeed - others should fail.
David Merrick

to work out
to be successful

Our plan for the wedding worked out fine.

soft as butter
smooth, comfortable .

My new pillow is as soft as butter.              

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!

CELL PHONES

These years, technology is developing very fast and I think it is good for people. In addition, people like using it, especially cell phones. Nowadays, cell phones are more common and everybody has one or two cell phones. Alright, what should we do when we buy a new cell phone? You should think and do these steps.

Firstly, you should know what you want. Do you only want to talk, listen to music, play games, or watch videos? If you only want to talk, you don’t have to think a lot. Your shopping will be very short. However, if you want the more, you must think carefully.

Secondly, you should decide which model you want. Although small phones look pretty, they aren’t useful. Big cell phones are more useful than the small ones. Which one do you want to use?

Our third step is money. If you don’t have a lot of money, you may not be able to buy what you want. You should visit lots of shops or malls. Some malls may be cheaper than others. If you have a lot of money you can relax. If I were you, I would buy an iphone. It is more attractive than the others and better quality.

After all these steps, you must be careful of your health. Everybody knows that cell phone batteries have a lot of radiation. Please get some information about this subject before buying a cell phone.

Now you know everything about what you should do when you buy a cell phone. I hope you will buy the best. Enjoy your shopping!

Duygu Yaşar
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