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The Chaos - Gerard Nolst Trenité

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This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Will Snellen wrote a PDF version using the phonetic alphabet. You can hear some of it pronounced mostly correctly in videos here: You can also skip down to a more complete introduction at the bottom of this page. Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation,    I will teach you in my verse    Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy;    Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;    Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!    Just compare heart, hear and heard,    Dies and diet, lord and word. Sword and sward, retain and Britain (Mind the latter how it's written).    Made has not the sound of bade,    Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid. Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague,    But be careful how you spea

The Chaos - Gerard Nolst Trenité The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Will Snellen wrote a PDF version using the phonetic alphabet . You can hear some of it pronounced mostly correctly in videos here: The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité on YouTube. English Pronunciation - "The Chaos" by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité on YouTube. You can also skip down to a more complete introduction at the bottom of this page . Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chao

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