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Knottiest Poem Credits: Unknown. Found floating around the internet originally titled as: "Can You Pronounce This Whole Poem? 90% Of People Can't..." Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse, Sounds like...

You might think you’ve got the English language down pretty well, especially if you were born into a family who speaks it. But even if you mastered English as a subject at school, we bet you are no match for this challenge! The Chaos, a poem written...

A Dutch scholar of the English language published this poem back in 1922 as an appendix to his 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent “to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation.” It’s said that if you can pronounce every...

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...

I use this poem fairly often in my classes as it is extremely good for training pronunciation. It has also been good for me because I have had to learn the meaning of every single word! English pronunciation test While most non-native speakers of English...