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The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Here’s The Chaos, a poem that is a catalogue of about 800 of the most notorious irregularities of traditional English orthography. Background on the poem and author here.Here’s the first 4 lines.
Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse.
At 274-lines, it’s long, but worth skimming. If you find this sort of thing amusing. Which I do.