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  2. 50 tough tongue twisters to challenge yourself and your friends

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    Ahead, we’ve got 50 tongue twisters for you to try on your own, share with loved ones or with English second-language (ESL) speakers in your inner orbit to hone their tongue-tango talents.

  3. 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language - AOL

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    How many of these can you say without stumbling? The post 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language appeared first on Reader's Digest.

  4. List of irregularly spelled English names - Wikipedia

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    This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.

  5. Mamihlapinatapai - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a standard accent.

  7. Announcer's test - Wikipedia

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    The tests involved the pronunciation of difficult words, as well as retention, memory, repetition, enunciation, diction, and using every letter in the alphabet a variety of times. [1] An excerpt of one early test, forwarded from Phillips Carlin, who was known for co-announcing the 1926, 1927, and 1928 World Series with Graham McNamee, is: [2]

  8. CMU Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Natural Language Toolkit contains an interface to the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The Carnegie Mellon Logios [5] tool incorporates the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. PronunDict, a pronunciation dictionary of American English, uses the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary as its data source. Pronunciation is transcribed in IPA symbols.

  9. The 5 Hardest and 5 Easiest Languages for English ... - AOL

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    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.