Try Reciting this Poem

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If anyone in an English Lit class got called up to recite this poem (it’s ‘The Chaos’ by Gerard Nolst Trenité, penned in 1922), you’d be forgiven for having the cold sweats. This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Can you recite this poem confidently? Scroll to the bottom to hear the pronunciation…

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