Our Strange Language by Lord Cromer

By the 20th century, English had become a kaleidoscope of colorful ways to put letters together, and most attempts to impose a more standardized match between spelling and pronunciation had failed. In the London magazine The Spectator, a poem attributed to Lord Cromer was published in 1902 that sums up all of the frustration caused by this quirk of the English language. Here is my version of Lord Cromer's satirical view of the English language.