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 https://youtu.be/1edPxKqiptw A poem about exceptions in English Dutch writer and traveler Gerard Nolst Trenité wrote a poem about exceptions in English. Imagine, he scored more than 800 of them! Guess what the poem is called? "Chaos"!!! Well, wouldn't you like to "call" English pronunciation or spelling like that at least once in your life? This is impossible to endure! Few of us have reached the end, and those who have reached it have silently left to drink coffee. And now imagine this: he not only picked up, but also rhymed all the inconsistencies and annoying misunderstandings in spelling and pronunciation in English. It turned out 247 lines of indignation. And this despite the fact that, we repeat, he is not a native English speaker! If you "endure" to the end of this poem, then you can consider yourself just a pro. Although, probably, the author himself would not have endured it. Let's listen to the poem first, and then read it The Chaos (192