Pronunciation

In response to Frank’s request for a solution, here’s a British guy’s attempt at interpreting The Chaos. Note no effort goes into oratory skills, I was just desperately trying to get through it in one go without too many hideous blunders.

Some points on mistakes, etc …

• Corps rhymes with corpse or “core”? The former seems to be getting common (the latter is more correct)
• Terpsichore is not a word I’m familiar with.
• Not sure on pronunciation of ‘bier’
• Not sure on ‘Melpomene’
• Billet, billet, billet … I think it’s supposed to be pronounced hard, so billet as in “fill it”.
• plover?!
• chaise should be “shez”
• I got alley instead of ally. oops.
• Neither vs. Neither, tomato, tomato …
• My pronunciation is off on preface.
• rowlock is off … it usually rhymes with bull’s testicles.
• There’s a typo near the end I think: is a paling should be is appalling?

I definitely need a few glasses of wine before attempting that again.

Anyway, my attempt is here: Chaos.

Update: Gianugo points me to this version. Only a few minor differences… mostly down to interpretation and context, says I, being particularly defensive!

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