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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.
I can't read easy English out loud correctly.
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.