About this Video:
It is said that if you can pronounce correctly every word in the chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world.
What does it mean correctly? I guess you could say that within one specific accent, there is a correct and incorrect way. So let us focus on an RP accent (standard southern British English accent).
Now, there are quite a few videos of this on YouTube, so what I thought I do is set you a challenge. I' going to speak the poem in a Standard southern British English accent, BUT I'm going to purposefully mispronounce 10 words in this poem. Yes, 10. And if you can spot these 10 differences, it will mean, in MY opinion that your awareness of British English Pronunciation is probably 90% better than native English speakers.
So listen to the poem, and as soon as you spot a difference, write it down. And at the end, go down to the comments, see if anyone else spotted the same differences, and if not, post the difference in the comments below. I posted this video on the 14th March 2017, so if it's way after that, don't cheat by looking at the comments, watch, listen and spot the differences, then check below to see the answers, if indeed anyone has managed to spot them!
English Pronunciation by G. Nolst Trenité
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.
View the rest of this English pronunciation poem challenge on my website:
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