h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~stolfi/PUB/misc-misc/DearestCreature.html

'Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.

...

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)

...'

by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité, 1870-1946


I suppose I'm not allowed to copy the whole text here.

There was a deadline how dead the author must be but I've never bothered to check it out.

70 years or something. But it's _very_ easy to google


Nice one, isn't it? I got it from Ottox who got it from someone who probably got it from someone ...





and lots of for you!

Nice indeed. Very educating.


*sips *

The sun is shining here atm but it's cold autumn sun today and it's out there. +14C.

Yep. Quite soon. First snow is expected in less then a month.
But this week I'll have a short trip to south. The zoo in Riga, Latvia is my destination.

Very funny, very clever. Thanks Sunny!

Very good, sunny.

Do you have a link for the 'advice to writers' thingy you used to have on your PS?


az

sure: MJ175291?journal=68131&show=1&skip=10 (Journal entry Dec.5, 2003)

one of the probably many other places:

http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/gregoryf/laughs/writing.html

(he got one or two double, if I remember correctly).


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