The Chaos
1920 poem written by Gerard Nolst Trenité / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the studio album by The Futureheads, see The Chaos (album).
For other uses, see Chaos (disambiguation).
"The Chaos" is a poem demonstrating the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation. Written by Dutch writer, traveller, and teacher Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870–1946) under the pseudonym of Charivarius, it includes about 800 examples of irregular spelling. The first version of 146 lines of text appeared in an appendix to the author's 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen, but "the most complete and authoritative version ever likely to emerge", published by the Spelling Society in 1993–94, has 274 lines.[1]
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