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The sauce, while based on a recipe used in India, did not grow popular in the west until marketed by Lea and Perrins. As such, it has retained the name they gave the sauce, “Worcestershire.”
Barbara's Rhubarb Bar (German: Barbaras Rhabarberbar) [1] is a German and Dutch tongue twister that gave rise to a popular novelty song.The tongue twister is based on repetition of the sound "bar", and celebrates a well-liked seasonal dessert.
It is also called in a generic way Yucatecan sauce (salsa yucateca) [4] or pickled onions (cebollas encurtidas). [5] Since the Mayan-Spanish transliteration is not standardized, the ways of writing are various; other common spellings are ixnipec , xnepec , xni'pek , ni'peek , x-ni-pec , xnepek , etc., where peek means 'dog' and ni means 'nose'.
And if you want to ease into these hard tongue twisters, try these tongue twisters for kids first. The post 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language appeared first on Reader's Digest.
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Chrząszcz (beetle, chafer) by Jan Brzechwa is a tongue-twister poem famous for being considered one of the hardest-to-pronounce texts in Polish literature. It may cause problems even for adult, native Polish speakers. [1] [2] [3] The first few lines of the poem:
The word mamihlapinatapai is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It has been translated as "a look that without words is shared by two people who want to initiate something, but that neither will ...
In the Foreign Service Institute’s language classification system, the most difficult languages are at Category 5. These take 88 weeks or 2,200 hours of classroom time to reach proficiency.