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 MrsA rated 15 months ago - Just how good is your English?
From the page: "If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading si...
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41 Reviews
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- thepoul rated 7 weeks ago
- awesome!
- darkmystica rated 2 months ago
- I heart this poem.
- HelenGr rated 8 months ago
- That was not easy, but after learning Chinese - this poem is not too terrible.
- piinkstarso6 rated 10 months ago
- Easy
- tbhurst rated 10 months ago
- English as a first language? From the page:
"If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. Try them yourself.
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..."
It goes on like that for a little while
- grkgrl88 rated 2 months ago
- And now my tongue is tired. ;)
- gomezzzza rated 2 months ago
- This should be used as a warm-up for anyone speaking in public.
- rukisuki rated 3 months ago
- love the poem, but it really should be attributed!
according to my (less than) extensive google search, this poem is "The Chaos" by Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite.
okay then.
 ihateevanthomas rated 8 months ago- Shut up. Please shut up. I have some yarn that I'll let you play with if you stop adding these poems to SU.
- pawes rated 9 months ago
- And I thought my english was good. I got half way through I started mispronouncing words. My roommate got through it perfectly.
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