The Chaos
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)
Chapters
| Version 1 | 6:13 | Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010) |
| Version 2 | 5:43 | Read by Anna Roberts |
| Version 3 | 6:45 | Read by Carol Stripling |
| Version 4 | 6:22 | Read by David Lawrence |
| Version 5 | 6:57 | Read by Hannah Dowell |
| Version 6 | 6:33 | Read by Jc Guan |
| Version 7 | 6:55 | Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016) |
| Version 8 | 6:40 | Read by Mark F. Smith |
| Version 9 | 4:12 | Read by mjbrichant |
| Version 10 | 7:48 | Read by PepsiBoo |
| Version 11 | 7:02 | Read by Rhonda Federman |
| Version 12 | 6:13 | Read by Sergio Baldelli |
| Version 13 | 6:04 | Read by TriciaG |
Reviews
@anmccaff
TwinkieToes
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
“Victuals” rhymes with little, no?