We’re not surprised by number one.
Did you ever have an English teacher that used to stop you whilst reading a passage of text because they desperately wanted to correct your pronunciation and grammar?
Looking back, Mr O’Hara did improve my vernacular and verbal dexterity to such a point where I now speak English really, really….good.
Ralph Wiggum may find it unpossible to fail English but the people at Reddit have proven that he’s not the only one.
Redditorsrsrsrsrsrrsrsrs have created a message thread to identify the 10 words that people have the most difficulty pronouncing and here they are:
10 – Rural
These people have obviously never been to the countryside.
9 – Otorhinolaryngologist
JOE runs to grab our dictionary. Apparently, it’s the study and treatment of diseases of the ear, nose, and throat.
We knew that already.
*Cough, cough*
Maybe we should see someone that’s proficient in Otorhinolaryngology about our cough?
Pronounced: ‘oto-rhino-laryng-ologist’
8 – Colonel
How can people fail to honour those brave men, Sanders, Kurtz and Klink?
7 – Penguin
JOE hero Rinkydink Curdlesnoot, Blubberbutt Cummerbund Benedict Cumberbatch won’t be feeling like such a weirdo now.
6 – Sixth
Rumour has it, that Bruce Willis film about the kid who sees dead people was going to be renamed the ‘Five Senses Plus One’ due to the “difficulty” of this word.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J34QnVhYNU
5 – Isthmus
Jonathan Ross must really hate those narrow strips of land that connect two larger areas.
Pronounced: ‘Is-mus’
4 – Anemone
No, it’s not the new celebrity ‘en vogue’ name but rather a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the temperate zones.
We didn’t just Wikipedia that.
3 – Squirrel
Ah now, surely they’re just having a laugh at this stage? Have they not seen Up?
2 – Choir
These people must have never attended their local mass. Heathens.
1 – Worcestershire
Everyone knows someone who really struggles to say this word.
In this scenario, do all of the following.
1) Ask them if they want some Worcestershire sauce on their sandwich. 2) Watch them struggle to say it. 3) Witness the utter resignation at this inability to pronounce the word.
On second thoughts, they’ll probably just ask for some brown sauce.
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