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...
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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.
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Good luck.
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