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Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse
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In 19 20, a dutch writer named gerard nolse trinity published a poem in english titled the chaos. The full poem goes on for another 66 stanzas and was designed as a pronunciation exercise. Why among all european languages, is english so uniquely chaotic to day? To help us answer that question, we're talking to linguist in long time front of the show, erica okrant, author of the new book highly irregular.Why tough through and doug don't rhyme and other oddities of the english language.
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