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,
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