POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : English is rough : Re: English is rough Server Time
4 Sep 2024 23:20:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: English is rough  
From: Stephen
Date: 17 Oct 2009 03:54:26
Message: <4ad97832$1@news.povray.org>
"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote in message 
news:4ad9672e$1@news.povray.org...
> Darren New wrote:
>> http://phd.pp.ru/Texts/fun/english-poem.txt
>
> Words therein with which I'm not familiar:
> sward, ague, Terpsichore, Balmoral, chalet(? might've seen it), clangour, 
> query doesn't rhyme with very? thought it did, Foeffer, (not sure what a 
> chaise is), aver, ere is right e'er, groats
>
> (I used to think lichen was pronounced with ch as in chop when I was a wee 
> lad)
>

That’s the “Trouble with Lichen” ;)

-- 

Stephen


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