Most difficult English word to pronounce

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Which word do you find most difficult to pronounce?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

'Wednesday' is the most difficult for me!

Raindoctor · Answer

Anonymous'Wednesday' is the most difficult for me!

It is not difficult for the mexican cashier at Taco Bell. You know why it is not difficult for her, even though she is not a native speaker? Her mind is not perverted by spelling, grammar, too much reading of text. She has heard it as 'wenzday'; she just mimicks it, even though her mimicked pronunciation contains mexican accent of pitch, etc. She did not waste her life learning spelling or following spelling bee contests.

L2 speakers waste their time researching about 'most difficult English words to pronounce'. No word is difficult for native speakers, because native speakers distort difficult foreign words to the extent that the latter become easy to pronounce. This is what all nativization is about. You can pick up Hindi or Spanish, where you see many English words are used as nouns, verbs, etc. But these English words don't have English pronunciations in those languages.

I see many Indian speakers pronounce 'Wednesday' like "Wed nuss day". When you ask them to mimic 'Wenz day', they end up saying "Wed nuss day". This confirms the hypothesis in cognitive psychology and philosophy of sciences: there are no neutral experiences (perceptions or hearings, etc). What you hear is structured by your existing beliefs, etc.

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