Examples of DRE

(in version 2.3 of strict DRE)

A larger sample of DRE, a transcription of Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark", may be downloaded here.


The Stàr (H.G. Wells)


It wôz on the first day ov the néw year that the anouncement wôz máde, aulmóst símultánéôusly frôm three obzervatòries, that the mótion ov the planet Neptúne, the outermóst ov aul the planets that wheel about the sun, had becôm vèry êratic.  A retàrdátion in its velocity had bên suspected in December.  Then a faint, remóte speck ov líet wôz discôvered in the réjon ov the perturbed planet.  At first this did not cauz âny vèry greyt excítement.  Sciëntific peaple, however, found the intellijence remàrkable enuff, éven befòre it becáme knówn that the néw body wôz rapidly grówing làrjer and bríeter, and that its mótion wôz quíte different frôm the òrderly progrêss ov the planets.

The Láte Aríval (Bob Boden)


Bob strólled up the path.  Hé wôz láte and wôz considering hiz alibí. Hé lissened tu the ôther càrs in the street, hedding hóme. The dòg, with paw raized, greeted him at the dòr. Molly coûd aulways tell when hé aríved. Shé wôz a faithful creatjur, and the sensitivity ov that nóze wôz not a myth.  The house wôz quiët. Hé looked down at the vínyl tíle.  It coûd stand sôm polish but hé woûd rezist the impulse tu complain.

Hé saw hiz fàther in the gàrden near the fence but didn't bother tu caull him. Hé wôz obvìôusly prepâring tu mów the lawn.  Hé coûd see the neybor's cow in the meddów and the dense woods béyond.  It seemed a trivìal matter but hé aulways looked tu see if thâre wôz ânything on the kitchen táble.  Hiz wífe míet wríte a nóte. Thâre wôz a néw novel thâre, probably hers.  It had a pecúlyar symbol on the côver.  The títle sed sômthing about néurons.  Hé didn't knów whôt that wôz about but simply didn't câre.

Hé decíded tu remùve the lábel now frôm the packaj hé wôz carrying.  Hé hóped that Mirtle woûd not harass him about the còst ov the néw fur coat hé had bawt her. Hé had a fairly good replý.  At least it wôz paid fòr. And the first ov the year wôz aulmóst hêre and the air wôz cóld.

Hé found the páper pàrtly ópen, óver a chair. It had rained in the mòrning.  The páper òffen got wet.  Hé turned the rádìó on but didn't câre fòr the singing.

He redd about the cýclóne which had aulmóst hit the civic center. The ský had looked threttening.  Hé gáve a síe.  Thâre woûd hav bên the devil tu pay if the stòrm had bên wôrse.  The knolledj máde him wince.  Hé thawt, "Wé àr só helplêss in the fáce ov bad wether".  Hé gáve sôm thawt tu sólar power, but clung tu hiz úzjùal rigor, which ment discussing this with hiz wífe befòre máking a decizion.  Shé expected this considerátion.  Hé had bên thinking about emerjency power and had an ídéa.  Sôm mezjur ov action míet bé prùdent.


Lincon's Gettyzburg Adress


Fòurscòre and seven years agó our fàthers brawt fòrth on this continent a néw nátion, conceeved in liberty and dedicáted tu the propozition that aul men àr créáted équol.

Now wé àr engájed in a greyt civil waur, testing whether that nátion òr âny nátion só conceeved and só dedicáted can lòng endúre.  Wé àr met on a greyt battle field ov that waur.  Wé hav côm tu dedicáte a pòrtion ov that field az a fínal resting-pláce fòr thóze hoó hêre gáve their líves that that nátion míet liv.  It iz aultogether fitting and proper that wé shoûd dù this.

But in a làrjer sense, wé can not dedicáte - wé can not consecráte - wé can not hallów - this ground.  The bráve men, living and ded, hoó struggled hêre, hav consecráted it, fàr abôv our poor power tu add òr detract.  The wôrld will little nóte, nòr lòng remember, whôt wé say hêre, but it can never forget whôt they did hêre.  It iz fòr us the living, rather, tu bé dedicáted hêre tu the unfinished wôrk which they hoó fawt hêre hav thus fàr só nóbly advanced.  It iz rather fòr us tu bé hêre dedicáted tu the greyt task remaining befòre us - that frôm théze onnored ded wé táke increased devótion tu that cauz fòr which they gáve the last fûll mezjur ov devótion - that wé hêre hýly rezòlv that théze ded shall not hav díed in vain - that this nátion, under God, shall hav a néw birth ov freedom - and that gôvernment ov the peaple, bý the peaple, fòr the peaple, shall not pèrish frôm the erth.


Industrìal Dizeaze (Màrk Knopfler)


Waurning líets àr flashing down at Quolity Contról
Sômbôdy threw a spanner and they threw him in the hóle
Thâre'z rùmors in the loading bay and anger in the town
Sômbôdy blew a whissle and the wauls cáme down
Thâre'z a meeting in the boardroóm, they'r trýing tu tráce the smell
Thâre'z leaking in the woshroóm, thâre'z a sneak in Personel
Sômwhâre in the corridor, sômwunn wôz hird tu sneeze
"Goodnêss mé, coûd this bé Industrìal Dizeaze?"

The câretáker wôz crùcifíed fòr sleeping at hiz póst
Refúzing tu bé pacifíed, it'z him they bláme the móst
The wotchdòg got rábies, the fòreman'z got the fleas
Evrywunn'z concerned about Industrìal Dizeaze
Thâre'z panic on the switchboard, tungs àr tíed in knots
Sôm côm out in sympathy, sôm côm out in spots
Sôm bláme the manajment, sôm the employees
And evrybôdy knóws it'z the Industrìal Dizeaze

The wôrk fòrce iz disgusted, downs toóls, wauks
Innocence iz injured, expêrìence just tauks
Evrywunn seeks damajes, evrywunn agrees
"Théze àr classic symptoms ov a monetâry squeeze"
On ITV and BBC they tauk about the curse
Philosophy iz úselêss, théolojy iz wôrse
History boils óver, thâre'z an economics freeze
Sócìolojists invent wôrds that mean Industrìal Dizeaze

Doctor Pàrkinson declâred "Í'm not surprízed tu see yoù hêre
Yoù'v got smóker's cauff frôm smóking, brewer's droóp frôm drinking beer
Í dón't knów how yoù cáme tu get the Betty Dávis knees
But wôrst ov aul yung man yoù'v got Industrìal Dizeaze"
Hé wróte mé a prescription, hé sed "Yoù àr depressed
Í'm glad yoù cáme tu see mé tu get this òff yoùr chest
Côm back and see mé láter, next pátient pleaze
Send in anôther victim ov Industrìal Dizeaze"

Í gó down tu Speaker's Còrner, Í'm thunderstruck
They got free speech, toùrists, polìce in trucks
Tew men say they'r Jézus, wunn ov them must bé wròng
They got a prótest singer, hé's singing a prótest sòng
Hé sez "They wont tu hav a waur só they can keep us on our knees
They wont tu hav a waur só they can keep their factories
They wont tu hav a waur tu stop us buýing Japanéze
They wont tu hav a waur tu stop Industrìal Dizeaze
They'r pointing out the enemy tu keep yoù deff and blínd
They wont tu sap yoùr enerjy, incàrceráte yoùr mínd
Giv yoù Rùle Britannya, gassy beer, páje three
Tew weeks in Espanya and Sunday strip teaze"
Meanwhíle, the first Jézus sez, "Í'll cúre it soón
Abolish Mônday mòrning and Fríday afternoón"
The ôther wunn'z out on hunger stríke, hé'z dýing bý degrees
How côm Jézus gets Industrìal Dizeaze?




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