{"id":158191,"date":"2016-02-19T15:18:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T13:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filastrocche.it\/contenuti\/?p=158191"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T14:15:08","slug":"the-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filastrocche.it\/contenuti\/the-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Mettete alla prova il vostro inglese con The Chaos<\/strong>!<\/h2>\n

Nota:<\/em> The Chaos<\/strong> di Gerard Nolst Trenit\u00e9<\/strong> \u00e8 un testo del 1922 che intende mostrare l’irregolarit\u00e0 nella pronuncia delle parole in lingua inglese<\/strong>. Se si riesce a pronunciare correttamente tutte le parole che leggete in questa poesia, significa che parlate inglese meglio del 90% dei madrelingua inglese<\/strong> in tutto il mondo!<\/p>\n

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Dearest creature in creation,
\nStudy English pronunciation.
\nI will teach you in my verse
\nSounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
\nI will keep you, Suzy, busy,
\nMake your head with heat grow dizzy.
\nTear in eye, your dress will tear.
\nSo shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
\nJust compare heart, beard, and heard,
\nDies and diet, lord and word,
\nSword and sward, retain and Britain.
\n(Mind the latter, how it\u2019s written.)
\nNow I surely will not plague you
\nWith such words as plaque and ague.
\nBut be careful how you speak:
\nSay break and steak, but bleak and streak;
\nCloven, oven, how and low,
\nScript, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
\nHear me say, devoid of trickery,
\nDaughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
\nTyphoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
\nExiles, similes, and reviles;
\nScholar, vicar, and cigar,
\nSolar, mica, war and far;
\nOne, anemone, Balmoral,
\nKitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
\nGertrude, German, wind and mind,
\nScene, Melpomene, mankind.
\nBillet does not rhyme with ballet,
\nBouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
\nBlood and flood are not like food,
\nNor is mould like should and would.
\nViscous, viscount, load and broad,
\nToward, to forward, to reward.
\nAnd your pronunciation\u2019s OK
\nWhen you correctly say croquet,
\nRounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
\nFriend and fiend, alive and live.
\nIvy, privy, famous; clamour
\nAnd enamour rhyme with hammer.
\nRiver, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
\nDoll and roll and some and home.
\nStranger does not rhyme with anger,
\nNeither does devour with clangour.
\nSouls but foul, haunt but aunt,
\nFont, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
\nShoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
\nAnd then singer, ginger, linger,
\nReal, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
\nMarriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
\nQuery does not rhyme with very,
\nNor does fury sound like bury.
\nDost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
\nJob, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
\nThough the differences seem little,
\nWe say actual but victual.
\nRefer does not rhyme with deafer.
\nFe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
\nMint, pint, senate and sedate;
\nDull, bull, and George ate late.
\nScenic, Arabic, Pacific,
\nScience, conscience, scientific.
\nLiberty, library, heave and heaven,
\nRachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
\nWe say hallowed, but allowed,
\nPeople, leopard, towed, but vowed.
\nMark the differences, moreover,
\nBetween mover, cover, clover;
\nLeeches, breeches, wise, precise,
\nChalice, but police and lice;
\nCamel, constable, unstable,
\nPrinciple, disciple, label.
\nPetal, panel, and canal,
\nWait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
\nWorm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
\nSenator, spectator, mayor.
\nTour, but our and succour, four.
\nGas, alas, and Arkansas.
\nSea, idea, Korea, area,
\nPsalm, Maria, but malaria.
\nYouth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
\nDoctrine, turpentine, marine.
\nCompare alien with Italian,
\nDandelion and battalion.
\nSally with ally, yea, ye,
\nEye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
\nSay aver, but ever, fever,
\nNeither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
\nHeron, granary, canary.
\nCrevice and device and aerie.
\nFace, but preface, not efface.
\nPhlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
\nLarge, but target, gin, give, verging,
\nOught, out, joust and scour, scourging.
\nEar, but earn and wear and tear
\nDo not rhyme with here but ere.
\nSeven is right, but so is even,
\nHyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
\nMonkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
\nAsk, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
\nPronunciation (think of Psyche!)
\nIs a paling stout and spikey?
\nWon\u2019t it make you lose your wits,
\nWriting groats and saying grits?
\nIt\u2019s a dark abyss or tunnel:
\nStrewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
\nIslington and Isle of Wight,
\nHousewife, verdict and indict.
\nFinally, which rhymes with enough,
\nThough, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
\nHiccough has the sound of cup.
\nMy advice is to give up!!!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"Scioglilingua\"<\/a>
\nPer leggere tanti altri Scioglilingua, clicca qui<\/strong><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Se si riesce a pronunciare correttamente tutte le parole che leggete in questa poesia, significa che parlate inglese meglio del 90% dei madrelingua […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":158193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,51,8,45],"tags":[5341,2713,6995,187,189],"sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-158191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poesie","category-poesie-dautore","category-scioglilingua","category-scioglilingua-dautore","tag-english","tag-inglese-2","tag-nursery-rhyme","tag-poesia","tag-poesie-2","occasioni-scuola","lingua-inglese","scopo-intrattenimento"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenit\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Testo di: The Chaos di Gerard Nolst Trenit\u00e9. 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