January 2010
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The Mysterious Case of English Pronunciation
bjornstar:
If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.
Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps,...
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So you want a heart do you? You don’t know how lucky you are not to have one....
– The Wizard of Oz (Submitted by twenty-one-secrets) (via quote-book)
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