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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 22 Jul 2017

    A poem about crazy English pronunciation.https://goo.gl/SC9uI 

    9:32 AM - 22 Jul 2017
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      2. Isabel‏ @chinija71 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        An easier one: "When the English tongue we speak... " http://www.seeyouspeak.com/CLASSROOM/Tips/files/20431f074d774d825a76c675fcef6106-71.html …

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      3. Daniel Willingham‏ @DTWillingham 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @chinija71 @sapinker

        I used this one in my book :)

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      4. Isabel‏ @chinija71 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @DTWillingham @sapinker

        I like it very much. I learnt it in 1988, during a summer course of English in Oxford. I like English but it is sometimes difficult :)

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      1. Nathanael Stunt‏ @NathanaelStunt 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Full version here.. https://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jnb/charivarius.html …

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      2. la tafiole sucree‏ @latafiolesucree 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is there a French version? French spelling and pronunciation often seem irrational, too.

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      3. Kenny De Metter‏ @KennyDeMetter 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @latafiolesucree @sapinker

        Actually, while french is complicated and has a lot of rules, it's actually quite logically constructed. It's much easier to be very precise

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      1. Joanna Mc‏ @Jomc20 23 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Love it! Every student of English should learn it by heart.

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      1. Goran Vučković‏ @gvuckovic 23 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @vardi

        Written by a Dutch :)

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      1. Elliott D. Hammer‏ @ElliottDHammer 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        This is epic! Oh how I wish I had a clever comment but it's simply a work of genius. Wow!

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      1. Peter A Barnard‏ @peterabarnard 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Makes me proud to be a Brit...

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      1. Mel Konner‏ @TangledWing 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Brilliant, would be much shorter in Spanish or Italian...

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      1. Ast A. Moore‏ @astamoore 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        The pronunciation is fine, it’s the spelling that’s never caught up.

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      1. Kenny De Metter‏ @KennyDeMetter 22 Jul 2017
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        That was awesome. Here you hear it :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw …

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      1. abraham elterman‏ @aelterman 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        English requires heavy memorization of pronunciation!

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      1. Jan Haugland‏ @JanHaugland 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        As you know so well, the pronunciation is as sensible as in any language, but English writing was more or less frozen centuries ago. :)

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      2. Javier SB‏ @LuxAeternaSB 22 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        As a non native english speaker, I put robot pronunciation to know how it sounds here http://bit.ly/2un5Joj  Are those ok?

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      3. J.C. Morton‏ @bonitobobo 23 Jul 2017
        Replying to @LuxAeternaSB @sapinker

        Some are still not correct but it's very close.

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      1. Mark Scurry‏ @MarkScurry 23 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Absolutely magnificent. And crazy too!

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      1. S. Johnson‏ @hiawathajohnson 23 Jul 2017
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        pic.twitter.com/Pm21asnjNw

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      1. Joanna Mc‏ @Jomc20 23 Jul 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Is there a poem about American english and its peculiarities? How did french 'vase' and 'route' become pronounced like 'laze' or 'root'?

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