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Maybe they should read more books out loud or something

Please Lord, let me get through this one without being mean. I understand that most people don’t share my love for learning, or my fascination with the roots, history, and complexity of the English language. I must also remain focused on the fact that the submissions here were worldwide, not just from England or Canada or the USA. Just remember how much you detest the French language and why.

[ Yes Drew, but you love it when Brazilian and Russian girls say “Ess kwhir el” to identify that gray tree rat, “Mooz” to point out that big deer with the palmated antlers, and “Wahl” to name the largest mammal in the sea. Yeah, but that’s what makes foreign accents so charming! ]

Reddit names hardest word to pronounce

After more than 5,000 submissions on Reddit from around the world, the word with the most votes was “Worcestershire.” Yep, like the sauce.

Now, before you get up in arms about me pronouncing the word incorrectly, even the “CBS This Morning” anchors don’t really agree on how to say it.

“The most difficult word in English is ‘Worcestershire.’ Some people say ‘Worcestershire,’” anchor Gayle King said.

“I like Worcestershire sauce,” anchor Norah O’Donnell said.

“Choir” came in second on the list, and the word “squirrel” was the third most difficult word to pronounce.

Also included on the list is the word “penguin,” a term that even Benedict Cumberbatch bumbled in a BBC documentary.

“I’m completely terrified of the word,” Cumberbatch said on “The Graham Norton Show.”

The Independent reports rounding out the top 10 were the words “isthmus,” “anemone” and “otorhinolaryngologist.” The last one’s an ear, nose and throat doctor.

Wust Er Shear

Kwhy Er

Skwirl or skwir ul. It’s almost a one syllable word.

Payng gwin. Yes, but it’s so adorable when she says “pen jew in”. Awww.

Isttth mus. It helps to be an Igor when saying this one. Yeth Marster, yeth!

An enemy? An enema? No, an emeny. Not Anna moan, not an emo nay.

Oh toe rhino lahr in gol oh gist. This one doesn’t belong here; it’s dead easy. It’s just long. If you can master supercalifragilisticexpialidocious ( ie form redresses function ), or the proper names of the folks from India and Africa you work with, this one is nothing.


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