If you can correctly pronounce every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.

iaminspectorspacetime:

crimsun:

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Read it all like a boss.

I stumbled across some of the more obscure words, but this is a DELIGHT to read out loud and only made me savour the beautifully ridiculous, unstructured, mongrel nature of the English language more.

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    everyone go read it all its actually immense
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    well I’m a native...can pronounce every single word.. do
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    There were a few words I didn’t know.
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    “Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.” This line makes me giggle, can you guess why DG?
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