He was a Dutch bloke (1870 - 1946) who specialised in spoken and written English. The poem is a bit long but it does show how similar words are pronounced quite differently, and is quite clever IMO.
www.cs.cmu.edu/~clamen/misc/humour/TheChaos.html
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I like that lots. Thanks smokie!
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Friend of mine who taught English (one-on-one to wealthy Russians) used to save this up for an end of term exercise.
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