Gerard Nolst Trenité (Dutch: [ɣeːrɑrt nɔlst treːniteː]; 20 July 1870 – 9 October 1946), publishing under the pseudonym Charivarius, was a Dutch writer, teacher, and observer of the English language. Nolst Trenité is best known in the English-speaking world for his poem The Chaos, which demonstrates many of the idiosyncrasies of English spelling and first appeared as an appendix to his 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen.
Gerard Nolst Trenité (Dutch: [ɣeːrɑrt nɔlst treːniteː]; 20 July 1870 – 9 October 1946), publishing under the pseudonym Charivarius, was a Dutch writer, teacher, and observer of the English language. Nolst Trenité is best known in the English-speaking world for his poem The Chaos, which demonstrates many of the idiosyncrasies of English spelling and first appeared as an appendix to his 1920 textbook Drop Your Foreign Accent: engelsche uitspraakoefeningen.
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