Gerard Nolst Trenité

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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 [ʃari'variəs] [1]). While the pronunciation of his own surname is not obvious (possibly the original French [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.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Upward, Chris (2004). The Classic Concordance of Cacographic Chaos. The Spelling Society. Retrieved on 2008-06-04.
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