[Ads-l] pronunciation mess

[Chris Waigl]

This poem pops up a lot among European learners of English as a foreign language. 

We had little contests among ourselves back in the 90s trying to read out the whole thing without stumbling, and teachers use it to keep a bored advanced kid busy.

Chris

On 23 May 2016, at 15:50, David Daniel <dad at COARSECOURSES.COM> wrote:

> I've seen parts of this before, but nothing this complete re nonsensical
> English pronunciation.
> http://www.thepoke.co.uk/2016/02/17/english-pronunciation-poem/#.VsXDG2kt8m4
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