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The Chaos

by: Gerard Nolst Trenité

Publication date: 2008-12-23

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: librivox, audiobook, poetry, poem, chaos, trenite, english, pronunciation

Language: English

This is a LibriVox Fortnightly Poetry from December 7, 2008. The Chaos, by Gerard Nolst Trenité. "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) Librivox catalog page HERE. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Download M4B (38MB)

Addeddate: 2008-12-23 17:51:58

Boxid: OL100020211

Call number: 2585

External-identifier: urn:storj:bucket:jvrrslrv7u4ubxymktudgzt3hnpq:chaos_0812_librivox

External_metadata_update: 2019-04-14T08:17:12Z

Identifier: chaos_0812_librivox

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Ocr_autonomous: true

Ocr_detected_lang: en

Ocr_detected_lang_conf: 1.0000

Ocr_detected_script: Latin

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Reviewer: TwinkieToes - - November 5, 2018
Subject: @anmccaff

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!

Reviewer: anmccaff - - November 4, 2018
Subject: mispronunciations don’t belong here...

“Victuals” rhymes with little, no?

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