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Q: What words are extremely hard to spell?



A: Jeff Grant, Word Ways, May, 1989, Volume 22, Number 2, pp. 107-8, 128

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 bouillabaisse	boo-yah-baze
 caoutchoucin	koo-choo-sin
 carillon(n)eur	ka-rill-yon-err
 dyspnoea	dis-nee-uh
 eisteddfodau	ess-teth-vod-eye
 eschscholtzia	esh-olt-see-uh
 homoiousia	hoe-moy-ooz-ee-uh
 Houyhnhnm	hwin-um
 intussuscipiens in-tuh-suh-sip-ee-uns
 kwashiorkor	kwosh-ee-or-cor
 mlechchha	mletch-char
 Nietzschean	nee-chee-in
 Orszaggyules	or-sargg-dyu-laze
 Phacochoerus	fay-ko-key-riss
 pr(a)emunire	pree-myu-nigh-ree
 Pterichthys	tur-ick-thiss
 rijsttafel	rye-stoffel
 Shabuoth	shuh-voo-oss
 syssitia	siss-ish-uh
 Takhtadjy	tarc-tar-jee
 vichyssoise	vee-shee-swahz
 yuffrouw	yew-frou
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