The fact it is so long, underlines the magnitude of the problem. English is one of THE WORST languages when it comes to encoding its phonemes in its alphabet.

The fact it is so long, underlines the magnitude of the problem. English is one of THE WORST languages when it comes to encoding its phonemes in its alphabet. I am familiar with pretty much every word in that poem. Knowing the word isn't the problem. How these words are correctly PRONOUNCED though, that is the actual issue. And even I got tripped up on some of them.