The Chaos
（摘自1920 教科书 Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité)
Dearest creature in creation, 亲爱的在创作中的生物，
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse诗句
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. 尸体，军，马，更糟糕
It will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy. 晕
Tear in eye, your dress will tear. 你的衣服撕裂
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word, 模具和饮食，领主和字
Sword and sward, retain and Britain. 剑和草地，保留和英国。
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.) 心中后者，它是如何写
Now I surely will not plague you鼠疫,大灾
With such words as plaque牌匾and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; 凄凉和连胜
Cloven偶, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. 脚本，收据，显示，诗，和脚趾。
Hear me say, devoid of trickery, 没有挂羊头卖狗肉
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore（topsecret）,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, 伤寒，麻疹，华顺，过道，
Exiles, similes, and reviles; 流亡者，明喻，和咒骂
Scholar, vicar, and cigar, 学者，牧师，和雪茄，
Solar, mica, war and far; 太阳能，云母，战争和远;
One, anemone, Balmoral, 海葵，巴尔莫勒尔堡，
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; 厨房，地衣，洗衣房，月桂树;
Gertrude格特鲁德, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind. 场景，Melpomene，人类
Billet does not rhyme with ballet, 方坯不韵与芭蕾，
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. 花束，钱包，木槌，木屋。
Blood and flood are not like food, 血液和洪水
Nor is mould也不是模具like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad, 粘性，子爵，负载和广泛，
Toward, to forward, to reward. 走向前进，以奖励。
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet, 槌球
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, 圆润，受伤，悲伤和筛
Friend and fiend, alive and live. 朋友和恶魔，活着和生活。
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour常青藤，枢密院，著名;叫嚣
And enamour rhyme with hammer. 迷住韵锤
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, 河，竞争对手，墓，炸弹，梳子，
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour. 吞噬与铿锵声
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, 灵魂，但犯规，心有余悸，但阿姨
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, 字体，前，习惯，希望，隆重，并授予
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger, 生姜，流连忘返
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, 真实，热情，紫红色，纱布，泥和衡量
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. 婚姻，树叶，海市蜃楼，和年龄。
Query does not rhyme with very, 查询不具有非常押韵，
Nor does fury sound like bury. 愤怒听起来也不埋葬。
Dost多斯特, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. 作业，NOB，胸部，气窗，宣誓
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual. 辎
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Foeffer，和Zephyr，小母牛。
Mint, pint, senate and sedate; 薄荷，品脱，参议院和稳重
Dull, bull, and George ate late. 呆滞，公牛，和乔治吃晚
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, 风景区，阿拉伯语，太平洋，
Science, conscience, scientific. 科学，良心，科学化。
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. 雷切尔，疼痛，胡子，11个
We say hallowed神圣, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed. 人，豹，拖走，但发誓。
Mark the differences, moreover此外,
Between mover, cover, clover三叶草;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, 水蛭，马裤，明智的，准确的，
Chalice, but police and lice; 圣杯，但警察和虱子;
Camel, constable, unstable, 骆驼，警员，不稳定，
Principle, disciple, label. 原则，弟子，标签。
Petal, panel, and canal, 花瓣，面板和运河
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. 等待，惊喜，辫子，承诺，PAL。
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, 蠕虫和风暴，贵妃，乱，椅子，
Senator, spectator, mayor. 参议员，观众，市长
Tour, but our and succour救助, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas. 唉，天然气，和阿肯色州
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria. 诗篇，玛丽亚，但疟疾
Youth, south, southern, cleanse洁净,消毒and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine. 学说，松节油，海洋。
Compare alien with Italian, 比较与意大利的外国人，
Dandelion and battalion. 蒲公英和营。
Sally with ally, yea, ye, 萨利与盟友，是啊，咋的，
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. 眼，我，唉，赞成，乳清和关键
Say aver, but ever, fever, 说断言，但有史以来，发热
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. 既不，休闲，绞纱，骗子
Heron, granary, canary. 苍鹭，粮仓，金丝雀。
Crevice and device and aerie. 缝隙和设备和鹰巢。
Face, but preface, not efface. 脸，但序言中，没有抹去。
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. 痰，多痰，屁股，玻璃，低音。
Large, but target, gin, give, verging, 大，但目标，杜松子酒，给予濒临
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. 理应，马背射击和冲刷，鞭打。
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere在。。之前.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, 连字号，粗糙，外甥斯蒂芬
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. 问，把握，黄蜂，软木和工作
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!) 发音（萨琪认为！）
Is a paling stout and spikey? 这是一个粗壮的桩子和高低不平？
Won’t it make you lose your wits斗智,
Writing groats and saying grits? 写米粒说糁？
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel: 深渊或隧道
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, 用石块散落，存放，慰藉，舷缘
Islington and Isle of Wight, 伊斯灵顿和怀特岛
Housewife, verdict and indict. 家庭主妇，判决和起诉。
Finally, which rhymes with enough, 最后，有足够的押韵
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? 虽然，通过犁，或面团，或咳嗽？
Hiccough has the sound of cup. 打嗝有杯的声音。
My advice is to give up!!!
注: Only the most famous lines appear in the video, so not all text will match up with the recording.
