Have you heard of The Chaos?
It is a poem illustrating the complexities of English pronunciation and spelling, written by a Dutchman Gerard Nolst Trenité pen name Charivarius. It first appeared in an appendix to the author’s 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen. (English pronunciation exercises).
I would defy any native English speaker to read it first time correctly!
Here is a link to the poem and another to a video of a reading of the poem. Hope you enjoy it!
http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw
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