BBC Announcer’s test

• One hen • Two ducks • Three squawking geese • Four Limerick oysters • Five corpulent porpoises • Six pairs of Don Alphonso tweezers • Seven thousand Macedonians in full battle array • Eight brass monkeys from the ancient, sacred crypts of Egypt • Nine apathetic, sympathetic, diabetic old men on roller skates with a marked propensity towards procrastination and sloth • Ten lyrical, spherical, diabolical denizens of the deep who haul stall around the corner of the quo of the quay of the quivery, all at