How good is YOUR English? Tongue-twisting poem puts even fluent speakers' pronunciation to the test (and it's harder than it looks)

• .It might seem easy at first but this poem is bound to leave you stumped
• .The poem is from 1922 and is called 'The Chaos' by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité
• .Scroll down to read the full text including puzzling rhymes 

By ESRA GURKAN FOR MAILONLINE

English is a tricky language filled with silent letters, random vowel sounds and sometimes apparently no logic.

Now a poem that aims to test an English speaker's skill with the language has resurfaced on the web.  

According to the author, Dutch poet Gerard Nolst Trenité, only a true Englishman can pronounce all of the words in his 1922 tongue twister. 

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The video recital shows how difficult the English language really is with words being spelled similarly but pronounced differently 

The ridiculously long poem, that has been rediscovered online, contains around 800 bizarre irregularities in the English Language.

A traveller and teacher Dr. Gerard demonstrated the complexities of our language and shows the differences between English spelling and pronunciation.

And although it might seem easy at first it contains several traps to trip up even the most confident - and even native - English speaker.

If you manage to pronounce all of the words correctly then you'll be a verified master of the English language.

Are you ready to put your English to the test? See if you can read this entire work without making a mistake - and check here to see if your pronunciation stands up with the best.

THE CHAOS BY DR. GERARD NOLST TRENITE (ABRIDGED)

Dearest creature in creation, 

Study English pronunciation. 

I will teach you in my verse 

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy, 

Make your head with heat grow dizzy. 

Tear in eye, your dress will tear. 

So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. 

Pray, console your loving poet, 

Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! 

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.) 

Now I surely will not plague you 

With such words as plaque and ague. 

But be careful how you speak: 

Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; 

Cloven, oven, how and low, 

Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. 

  

Hear me say, devoid of trickery, 

Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, 

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, 

Exiles, similes, and reviles; 

Scholar, vicar, and cigar, 

Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral, 

Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; 

Gertrude, German, wind and mind, 

Scene, Melpomene, mankind. 

Billet does not rhyme with ballet, 

Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. 

Blood and flood are not like food, 

Nor is mould like should and would. 

Viscous, viscount, load and broad, 

Toward, to forward, to reward. 

And your pronunciation's OK 

When you correctly say croquet, 

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, 

Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous; clamour 

And enamour rhyme with hammer. 

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, 

Doll and roll and some and home. 

Stranger does not rhyme with anger, 

Neither does devour with clangour. 

Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, 

Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, 

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, 

And then singer, ginger, linger, 

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, 

Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. 

Compare alien with Italian, 

Dandelion and battalion. 

Sally with ally, yea, ye, 

Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. 

Say aver, but ever, fever, 

Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. 

Heron, granary, canary. 

Crevice and device and aerie. 

Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! 

Is a paling stout and spikey? 

Won't it make you lose your wits, 

Writing groats and saying grits? 

It's a dark abyss or tunnel: 

Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,