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Default Re: the hardest word

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Originally Posted by Unregistered
what is the hardest word in the english language
I think the most difficult words in the English language are as follows:

(a) The ones that have more than one spelling like, traveling (American English) and travelling (British English), which are spelled either way in Canada, and so I am never sure which spelling variation to use.

(b) Those -ie- and -ei- words like, believe and receive, because I can never seem to remember how they're spelled, and when you don't know how to spell a word correctly, you tend to choose another word, one that doesn't express exactly what you wanted to say.

c) Words that end in -able and -ible like, terrible and probable. Speakers pronounce the vowels 'a' and 'i' as schwa, a neutral vowel, which makes it difficult because the Roman alphabet doesn't have a letter for schwa, so I'm forever looking -able and -ible words up in my dictionary.

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By the way, try, "What's the most difficult word in the English language?"
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