British researchers conducted a survey to find out what English words cause the most trouble. A list of the twenty most difficult to pronounce words led the noun “PHENOMENON”. Also in the rating include the following words
2. Anaesthetist
3. Remuneration
4. Statistics
5. Ethnicity
6. Philosophical
7. Provocatively
8. Anonymous
9. Thesaurus
10. Aluminium
11. Regularly
12. February
13. Particularly
14. Hereditary
15. Prioritising
16. Pronunciation
17. Prejudice
18. Facilitate
19. Hospitable
20. Onomatopoeia
It turned out that the British often mispronounce words in which to close a letter to the letters ‘m’ and ‘n’, and ‘t’, ‘s’ and a mix of ‘th’. At least half of the 3000 respondents said they often corrected people who mispronounce any words. In addition, a quarter of respondents believed that mistakes in pronunciation of words indicates a lack of education.