Gerard Nolst Trenité The Chaos (1922) Poem English ( UK) Accent

Technically there s no correct way of reading this, since accents can alter the sound of words and syllabic emphasis. You ll notice that food, would, cough, enough and canary, aerie do not rhyme for me. My own accent isn t really received pronunciation; I grew up in the north of England and have since lived in the south, so sometimes my a s are flat I say moustache as mustash ) and sometimes they re more rounded (glass is pronounced glarss). Just to add confusion, my mother, who s from the south, pronounces moustache as mustosh. There are also generational differences. My parents will pronounce ate as et, while I ve picked up the more American pronunciation of eight. I also tend to switch between neither as neyether and neether, depending on the context. Edit: Oh, and I misread viscous as vicious. Even natives get wrong sometimes