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Niagara on the Lake, Ontario, Canada
My virtue is that I say what I think, my vice that what I think doesn't amount to much.
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Why Is English So Hard to Learn?
In 1920, Dutch writer and traveler Gerard Nolst Trenité published a textbook on English pronunciation that included a poem titled “The Chaos,” a demonstration of around 800 irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation.
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