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If You Can Pronounce This Poetic Tongue Twister You've Mastered English

If You Can Pronounce This Poetic Tongue Twister You've Mastered English

Are you up for the challenge?

James Dawson

James Dawson

I write for theLADbible so yeah, as you're probably already aware from my articles, I am a master of the English language.

Your probably slating me right now. Probably saying were all illiterate. And that we carnt spell.

But according to the Internet, there's another way of testing your mastery of English other than banging out great articles for the lads on the reg.

In 1922, Dutch poet Gerard Nolste Trenité wrote a poem containing around 800 bizarre irregularities in the English language. It's a tongue twister, but if you can pronounce all the words in the poem then you're verified as a master of the language.

You can listen to it here...

Video credit: YouTube / Lindybeige

It begins...

Dearest Creature in creation

Study English pronunciation

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse corps horse and worse

It goes on...

Hear me say devoid of trickery

Daughter laughter and Terpsichore

Typhoid measles topsails aisles

Exiles similes and reviles

Scholar vicar and cigar

Solar mica war and far

One anemone Balmoral

Kitchen lichen laundry laurel

And the poem ends on the question...

Finally which rhymes with enough

Though through plough or dough or cough?

Pretty hard that.

Good luck.

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