Test Your English Pronunciation! (Part 2) | unPHILtered - Chicago Tonight Blogs Test Your English Pronunciation! By Phil Ponce | Published January 4, 2012 1 The following verbal exercise was forwarded to me; it apparently originated on a British website. It is a hoot of a test of one’s English pronunciation. See how you do! (A link to a “correct” performance tomorrow): If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he’d prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. 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, Su...