Retell the story "Little Red Riding Hood" with every word replaced by a similar-sounding English word, so...

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Problem

Retell the story "Little Red Riding Hood" with every word replaced by a
similar-sounding English word, so that the whole story remains
understandable.

[ Editor: problem statement reconstructed from the postings.  Bob
  Morris recalled such a version, "Ladle Rat Rotten Hut", used in a
  linguistics class to show how much redundancy there is in English. ]

Show solution

The following was written by H.L. Chace, who is/was definitely not
a computer.  It's a classic.

(also known as LADLE RAT ROTTEN HUT)
FURRY STARRY WIDOW MURAL

     Wants pawn term, dare worsted ladle gull hoe lift wetter
murder inner ladle cordage honor itch offer lodge, dock florist.
Disk ladle gull orphan worry ladle cluck wetter putty ladle
rat hut, and fur disk raisin pimple caulder Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

     Wan moaning Rat Rotten Hut's murder colder inset: "Ladle
Rat Rotten Hut, heresy ladle basking winsome burden barter
end shirker crook yeast.  Tick disk ladle basking tudor cordage
offer groin murder hoe lifts honor udder site offer florist.
Shaker lake, dun stopper laundry wrote, end yonder nor sorghum
stenches dun stopper torque wet strainers."

     "Hoe cake, murder," resplendent Ladle Rat Rotten Hut,
and tickle ladle basking and stuttered oft.  Honor wrote tudor
cordage offer groin murder, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut mitten anomalous
woof.  "Wail, wail, wail," set disk wicket woof, "evanescent Ladle
Rat Rotten Hut!  Wares or putty gull goring wizard ladle basking?"

     "Armor goring tumor groin murder's," reprisal ladle gull.
"Grammars seeking bet.  Armor ticking arson burden barter end
shirker crook yeast."

     "O hoe!  Heifer blessing woke," setter wicket woof.
Butter taught tomb shelf, "Oil ticker shirt court tudor cordage
offer groin murder.  Oil ketchup wetter letter.  End den--o bore!"

     Soda wicket woof tucker shirt court, end whinney retched
a cordage offer groin murder, picket inner widow end sore debtor
pore oil worming worse lion inner bet.  Inner flesh disk
abdominal woof lipped honor betting adder rope.  Zany pool dawn
a groin murder's nut cup end gnat gun, any curdle dope inner bet.

     Inner ladle wile, Ladle Rat Rotten Hut a raft attar cordage
end ranker doughball.

     "Comb ink, sweat hard," setter wicket woof, disgracing
is verse.

     "O grammar," crater ladle gull.  "Wart bag icer gut!"

     "Buttered lucky chew whiff, doling," whiskered disk
ratchet woof, wetter wicket small.

     "O grammar," sea shed.  "Water bag noise!  An nervous sore
suture anomalous prognosis!"

     "Buttered small your whiff," inserter woof, ants mouse
worse ward ring.

     "O grammar, water bag mousey gut!" sicks clammed.  "A
nervous sore suture bag mouse!"

     Daze worry on forger nut gull's lest warts.  Oil offer
sodden throne offer carvers an sprinkling otter but, disk
while an bloat Thursday woof ceased pore Ladle Rat Rotten Hut
an garbled erupt.

MURAL:  Yonder nor sorghum stenches shut ladle gullls stopper
torque wet strainers.

-- Dave Dodson <dodson@convex.com>

[ Editor: see also entry "oronym". ]