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Ah, you remind me about the horrible time ever. I was doing my research on George the Sixth! Ah, it was a really hard time to me to spell this word out to others .
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I used to find a diffeculty in pronuncing the word QUESTION! Can you beleive it! Then I found it very easy. The most diffecult word to pronunce is the word refrigerator. I just asked the teacher an hour ago to correct the way I transcriped it in. Is not it the most diffecult word ever?
In fact the most difficult word for me to pronounce is anticonstitutionalistically
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I think the American way of pronouncing 'million' or 'williams' is hard to imitate, while the British way is much easier.
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Try saying 'The thesaurus is'.
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In the same way of "The thesaurus is" , there is: "There're three tea trees"

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The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
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as for daily words I'm constantly correcting "usually" and "rival"

my nursing college students have a hard time with "atherosclerotic plaque"
70% of them never even get to "plaque"
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I'm surprised they get halfway.
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I still find "very well" hard to get right. A lot of times it comes out more like "very vell" which is extremely embarrassing. Very on its own is easy, so is well, but as a combo... Maybe it's a German thing.
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