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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.
x-mas:
By the way, try, "What's the
most difficult word in the
English language?"
