| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Koolmexxi(m): 12:48pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Brilliant piece... Reading it with ease isn't related to reading it correctly (with the right pronunciation) 1 Like |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Nobody: 1:15pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Difficult. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Nobody: 1:29pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Read all......pronounce all........ no mix up....... buh not sure if I get all pronunciations correct |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by drmaxayuba(m): 2:54pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
yeaaaaa |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by chinedusamson(m): 2:56pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
next....no credit today |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by drmaxayuba(m): 2:56pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
i cant |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Forwetinnah: 2:59pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
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| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by lacicrips(m): 3:00pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
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| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by abbey621(m): 3:02pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
You can pronounce all you want but most people cannot even understand the meaning of some of the words. Not to talk of most Nigerians not privilege with the education of higher linguistics. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by JeffreyJamez(m): 3:02pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
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| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by damiloladuke: 3:04pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
hmmmmm
CHECK MY SIGNATURE |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by veave(f): 3:06pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Hmmmm. I tried small. The ones I couldn't pronounce, I'll look them up...
Thanks Op for this piece. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Nobody: 3:07pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
I read the first few lines out loud... perfectly.
The poem is too damn long. I don't have the patience. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by keandre: 3:08pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
 simple sumtin |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by damilareoye: 3:08pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
enough..... I can't come and kill myself... btw, i tried....  |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Truckpusher(m): 3:08pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
April07:
Wow! This is a really beautiful piece! 
And... I read the whole poem without pausing.. yup! I didn't mix up any word 
Bad asss 
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| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by grammarcop(m): 3:10pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
alexasomba:
The poem below is a condensed version of 'The Chaos' by Gerard Nolst Trenité , written in 1922.
It features a ridiculous number of words that are difficult to pronounce, so don't feel bad if you have to refer to a dictionary. I certainly did!
If you fancy yourself something of a professional linguist, then this challenge is for you. English is notoriously difficult to learn, as the language has so many exceptions to the rules. Even for a native English speaker, this poem presents quite a few challenges! Check it out and see how you fare. If you can pronounce all of the words, you speak English better than 90% of the population.
Here we go!
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
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;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!! you recite a poem, not Pronounce a poem. 1 Like |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by tochstorm(m): 3:12pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
April07:
Wow! This is a really beautiful piece!
And... I read the whole poem without pausing.. yup! I didn't mix up any word
Bad asss calm down jack sparrow as if you know/ understand most of the words in that piece. Good write up the writer that wrote that thing? ( chose not to call it poem ) did it with two dictionaries. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Nobody: 3:12pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
modskiller:
Piece of cake.
I even did it with my mouth closed 
Hahahahaha. Then how did you pronounce it? 1 Like |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by happney65: 3:14pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Nonesense..Abeg Play Shakiti bobo for me joo |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by MistadeRegal(m): 3:14pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Nice write up. Most readers pronounce these words as per what they see written but their pronounciations are not as their spellings. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by stellytwinkle(f): 3:15pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
alexasomba:
The poem below is a condensed version of 'The Chaos' by Gerard Nolst Trenité , written in 1922.
It features a ridiculous number of words that are difficult to pronounce, so don't feel bad if you have to refer to a dictionary. I certainly did!
If you fancy yourself something of a professional linguist, then this challenge is for you. English is notoriously difficult to learn, as the language has so many exceptions to the rules. Even for a native English speaker, this poem presents quite a few challenges! Check it out and see how you fare. If you can pronounce all of the words, you speak English better than 90% of the population.
Here we go!
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
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;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation -- think of Psyche!
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough --
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!! na wa ooh! Spit don full the floor finish. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Nobody: 3:16pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
What is harding there,it didn't hard at all,I'm readed it without difficult. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by NovusHomo(m): 3:16pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
mascaraWand:
Beautiful. True. But you don't PRONOUNCE a poem. You READ it, aloud or to yourself. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by Abduletudaye(m): 3:17pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Poem with words...i love it!   And BTW, i pronounced all words without tripping... |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by mygee33(m): 3:18pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
I don tire oh |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by tellwisdom: 3:20pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
Spits |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by ABIOLAXYZ(m): 3:20pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
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| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by beyoncausme: 3:22pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
henhen.... |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by daxon001(m): 3:24pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
me likey  .many local peeps around won't find dis interestin cos dey'll be pronouncin rubbish ps:many an English speaker I bet don't know tear(verb) rhymes with prayer. |
| Re: If You Can Pronounce This Whole Poem, You Speak English Better Than 90% Of Us by marldean(m): 3:25pm On Jul 05, 2015 |
We pat ourselves in the back for speaking English while we neglect our local languages. |
