自1920年发表后，这首“诗”早已成为美国ESL(非母语英语）课堂普遍学习的课文。这首诗集合了常见的易错发音词汇建议大家在每个发音相似的词上注上音标，然后自己多练练，再跟音频上的发音做对比。如果看不懂的话不必着急，因为这首诗内容没怎么有逻辑,主要是对比法音；它集合了常见的易错发音词汇，而诗文本身没有深层意思。（此处选取的是英音女声版本，网上也有众多美音版本。）
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英音慢版及朗读文本 The Chaos 来自英腔雅调 00:00 06:27
Dearest creature in creation,
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse,
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse,
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy,
Tear in eye your dress you'll 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 vague and ague,
But be careful how you speak,
Say break, steak, but bleak and streak.
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe,
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles.
Exiles, similes, reviles,
Wholly, holly, signal, signing,
Thames, examining, combining,
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war, and far.
One, anemone. Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel,
Gertrude, German, wind, and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind,
Billet does not end like ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet,
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, Viscount, load, and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward,
And your pronunciation's O.K.,
When you correctly say : croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve, and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive, and live,
Ivy, privy, famous, clamour,
And enamour rime with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home,
Stranger does not rime with anger,
Neither does devour with clangou,
Soul, but foul and gaunt but aunt,
Font, front, won't, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say: finger,
And then: singer, ginger, linger.
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage,and age,
Query does not rime with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury,
Dost, lost, post; and doth, cloth, loth,
Job, Job; blossom, bosom, oath,
Though the difference seems little,
We say actual, but victual.
Reefer does not rime with deafer,
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer,
Mint, pint, Senate, and sedate,
Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late,
Hint, pint, Senate, but sedate,
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific,
Liberty, library, heave, and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the difference, moreover,
Between mover, plover, Dover,
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police, and lice.
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, penal, and canal,
Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal,
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, and chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor,
Tour, but our and succour, four,
Gas, alas, and Arkansas,
Sea, idea, guinea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean,
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion with battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey,and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever.
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary,
Crevice and device, and aerie,
Face but preface, but efface,
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust, and scour, scourging,
Ear, but earn, and wear and tear,
Do not rime with here, but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, clerk, and jerk,
Asp, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation--think of psyche!
Is a paling, stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing 'groats' and saying 'grits'?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel,
Strewn with stones, like rowlock, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict, and indict.
Finally: which rimes with 'enough'
Though, through, plough, cough, hough, or tough?
Hiccough has the sound of 'cup.'
My advice is to give up!
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