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The top three words Americans have difficulty pronouncing: Açaí, Gyro, & Omicron. (Based on a study of Google searches by unscrambled-words.com.)

7:44 PM · Oct 4, 2022

Deb Chachra is also debcha on mastodon.social

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“gif” OR “jif” 😂

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How can I possibly trust a survey that allows both pronunciations of GIF as correct?

@TheTigerTrainer

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Not sure I agree with your wording here. I suspect that the words I want to confirm my pronunciation of aren't necessarily the ones I have the most difficulty pronouncing.

Person of the Day

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how does omicron trip you up? this isn't a pronouncement problem, just a reading problem.

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@lightsoutonight

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Was this poll taken exclusively in Essex County, MA?

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Precarious Politics

@PrecariPolitics

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Not being able to pronounce foreign words with vowel sounds that don't exist in English is not surprising.

Precarious Politics

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Worcestershire is probably the only legit English word there.

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Cool always wondered about Nguyen. Been saying it wrong of course 😛

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Lol charcuterie

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