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Cover of Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation

Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation

Anonymous

Length
8 min
Chapters
1
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
First published
1836

2020 is not a year we want to remember very much. But all this social distancing and quarantine isolation has produced a bumper crop of Librivox recordings: we passed our previous highest number of catalog releases in one year (1083) in mid-October. A competition to estimate what the total would be at the end of the year ensued, and losers have atoned for guessing wrong by contributing a stanza of this tongue-twister poem. The winner, Rosebud, picked 1337, the closest guess to the actual 1336 2020 catalog releases as of midnight 31 Dec. - Summary by ToddHW

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