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THE CHAOS
Gerard Nolst Trenité was born on July 20, 1870, and passed away in 1946. He was a brilliant English enthusiast and observer, better known for his poem The Chaos, which highlights the fact that English pronunciation and spelling are not really connected in practice. The Chaos is a great tool for understanding this fact, as well as fun pronunciation practice for English learners and native speakers alike.
24 pages, Paperback
Published November 9, 2022
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Gerard Nolst Trenité
4 books6 followersDr. Gerard Nolst Trenité was a Dutch observer of English.
Nolst Trenité published under the pseudonym Charivarius (which he pronounced irregularly as [ʃariˈvariəs]). While the pronunciation of his own surname is not obvious (possibly the original French [tʁɛniˈte]), he is best known in the English-speaking world for his poem The Chaos which demonstrates many of the idiosyncrasies of English spelling and first appeared as an appendix to his 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen. The subtitle of the book means "English pronunciation exercises", but uses the pre-1947 Dutch spelling instead of current engelse.
Nolst Trenité published under the pseudonym Charivarius (which he pronounced irregularly as [ʃariˈvariəs]). While the pronunciation of his own surname is not obvious (possibly the original French [tʁɛniˈte]), he is best known in the English-speaking world for his poem The Chaos which demonstrates many of the idiosyncrasies of English spelling and first appeared as an appendix to his 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen. The subtitle of the book means "English pronunciation exercises", but uses the pre-1947 Dutch spelling instead of current engelse.
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