Chaos

By Gerald Nolst Trenité · Running time 1:23:27 · Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry), Language learning

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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)

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