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one poem that makes your english better

If you can pronounce every word in this poem correctly, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos  (1922) Dearest  creature  in  creation Studying English  pronunciation ,     I will teach you in my  verse     Sounds like  corpse ,  corps ,  horse  and  worse . I will keep you,  Susy ,  busy , Make your  head  with  heat  grow dizzy;     Tear  in eye, your dress you'll  tear ;     Queer , fair  seer ,  hear  my  prayer . Pray , console your loving  poet , Make my coat look  new , dear,  sew   it !     Just compare  heart ,  hear  and  heard ,     Dies  and  diet ,  lord  and  word . Sword  and  sward ,  retain  and  Britain (Mind the latter how it's  written ).     Made  has not the sound of  bade ,     Say - said ,  pay - paid ,  laid  but  plaid . Now I surely will not  plague you With such words as  vague  and  ague ,     But be careful how you  speak ,     Say:  gush, bush,

the beauty of mathematics

These are some of the hidden gems of mathematics. Look at the way in which numbers interact!