Gerard Nolst Trenité

Gerard Nolst Trenité

Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité (July 20 1870, Utrecht - October 9 1946, Haarlem), was a Dutch observer of English.

Nolst Trenité published under the pseudonym Charivarius (which he pronounced irregularly as IPA| [ʃari'variəs] [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/char003isda01_01/char003isda01_01_0001.htm] ). While the pronunciation of his own surname is not obvious (possibly the original French IPA| [tʁɛnɪ'te] ), he 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". [cite web|url=http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/caos.php|title=The Classic Concordance of Cacographic Chaos|last=Upward|first=Chris|date=2004|work=The Spelling Society|accessdate=2008-06-04]

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