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English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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If English wasn't your first language, maybe if you learned English later in life, were there any words that you had a really hard time learning how to pronounce? Do you think that had to do with the sounds made in your first language?

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[–] 46 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Colonel.

Less of how hard it is to actually pronounce, more like how hard it is to believe it's pronounced that way.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    It was spelled with an R in the past, and they tried to change it to an L (because that's how it "properly" should be according to its origins), but only the spelling stuck, probably due to everyone being illiterate anyway.

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