{"id":778,"date":"2015-05-19T14:35:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=778"},"modified":"2015-05-19T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:35:13","slug":"the-most-difficult-words-to-pronounce-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/the-most-difficult-words-to-pronounce-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"The most difficult words to pronounce in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are many candidates. From the small furry &#8222;squirrel&#8220; (which has an\u00a0added bonus \u00a0&#8211; its German translation &#8222;Eichh\u00f6rnchen&#8220; is almost impossible for English speakers to pronounce!) to the already-discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/worcestershire-sauce-is-pronounce-how\/\">Worcestershire Sauce<\/a>, English is full of hard-to-say words. The list below\u00a0includes some of the trickiest, as well as a couple of tongue twisters to keep you on your toes, such as &#8222;The sixth sick sheik&#8217;s sixth sheep&#8217;s sick.&#8220;<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 4096px;\">\n<div style=\"left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 0px; position: relative; padding-bottom: 72.9004%;\"><iframe src=\"\/\/cdn.iframe.ly\/NEgdoi?summary=true\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many candidates. From the small furry &#8222;squirrel&#8220; (which has an\u00a0added bonus \u00a0&#8211; its German translation &#8222;Eichh\u00f6rnchen&#8220; is almost impossible for English speakers to pronounce!) to the already-discussed Worcestershire Sauce, English is full of hard-to-say words. The list below\u00a0includes some of the trickiest, as well as a couple of tongue twisters to keep you [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}