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Don't worry; English pronunciation can be mastered simply through tough, thorough thought. (English "o" is tons of fun-- of the 22 vowel sounds listed on the
by JonathonW 3y ago
Don't worry; English pronunciation can be mastered simply through tough, thorough thought.
(English "o" is tons of fun-- of the 22 vowel sounds listed on the English orthography page on Wikipedia, only two can't generally have the letter "o" involved.)
- cmehdy 3y agoThe Chaos (1922) - http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html More than half of my life lived in English-speaking countries does not help quite enough to avoid a migraine with this one.
- filterfish 3y agoThat's fantastic!
- looping8 3y agoI have seen similar joke poems but this one was too much for me. I even saw words I never heard of before, like "sward". For anyone like me - it's a lawn or a meadow.
- teddyh 3y agoComplete version as originally published in 1920: <https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chaos https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Chaos>
- thfuran 3y ago>Made has not the sound of bade Doesn't it though?
- pja 3y agoI think you might argue that the a in bade is stressed whereas the a in made is unstressed? Otherwise I agree, there’s no difference between the two in my dialect. Wiktionary suggests that it can be a homophone with bad in some dialects though, so perhaps that’s what the author was thinking of?
- EliRivers 3y agoIndeed. I apologise that none of the following words rhyme; rough, cough, plough, dough, lough, hiccough.
- gniv 3y ago> through tough, thorough thought. Neat example. What's also interesting is that it's hard to parse visually too, so it slows down reading.
- namtab00 3y agoit's also missing a final ", though"