The Chaos
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Gerald Nolst Trenité
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"The Chaos" is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), also known under the pseudonym Charivarius. It first appeared in an appendix to the author's 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen. (From Wikipedia) (1 hr 23 min)
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@anmccaff
TwinkieToes
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Ha ha ha - you're hilarious! Here's the text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ruize-rijmen/De_Chaos I dare you to read it aloud without one mispronunciation. Double your points if you aren't a native English speaker, as several of these readers. That's the point of the whole poem - how complicated English pronunciation is!
mispronunciations don’t belong here...
anmccaff
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“Victuals” rhymes with little, no?