Howard Lambert Chace (June 4, 1897 – January 9, 1982)[1] was a professor of Romance languages at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and is best known for writing poems and stories employing homophonic transformation.
During those years he was interested in music and recording on old wax cylinders, and for a time took leave from school to serve in the Merchant Marines.
[5][1] In 1940, he wrote Ladle Rat Rotten Hut to demonstrate that the intonation of spoken English is almost as important to the meaning as the words themselves.
The tale begins "Wants pawn term dare worsted ladle gull," which is easily deciphered, when spoken with appropriate intonation, to mean "Once upon a time there was a little girl."
"Ladle Rat Rotten Hut" was later published in his book Anguish Languish (1956) after it was read on television by Arthur Godfrey.