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Google for a poem called "The Chaos". It starts with "Dearest creature in creation". Read it out loud without errors.
Here it is. I was going to paste the whole text in here until I realized what a monster of a poem it is.
As a native speaker, dang, that's not easy!
A few words I'm not sure on.
As a non-native speaker, it took me a quite few trials to get things right. And it contained a shitload of surprizes.
There is a reason this poem is called "The Chaos".
And, have you read it aloud? ;-)
But it is good that you provided the link instead of the text, as the link contains a load of additional information about the poem and its author.
This poem could be the final test of an English course.
That's not easy, Mr. Fox, sir
When tweetle beetles fight, it’s called a tweetle beetle battle.
And when they battle in a puddle, it’s a tweetle beetle puddle battle.
AND, when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle, they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.
AND, when beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle they call it a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.
I can't read easy English out loud correctly.