1. 'Pad kid poured curd pulled cod. ' A team of researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that this is the most difficult tongue twister in the world.
TH. The “TH” sound is the hardest sound in the English language. It is made by placing your tongue through your teeth.
The 10 most misspelled words in the U.S.
"Foreign" and "promise" are each misspelled at a higher than average rate in three U.S. states, more than any other word, according to the website. Here's a list of the most misspelled words for each U.S. state.
The longest word in English has 189,819 letters and takes 3 hours to pronounce. This is a technical term for the chemical composition of titin. Titin is the largest known protein responsible for maintaining the passive elasticity of the muscles.
Onomatopoeia
The word onomatopoeia is a jumble of vowels and is probably the most difficult English word to pronounce. It is pronounced [on-uh-mat-uh–pee–uh], and it defines a word that imitates a sound. The –poeia suffix is pronounced [pee–uh]. The letter O is silent.
1. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)
So, before we start, how do you pronounce pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis? It is pronounced pneu·mo·no·ul·tra·mi·cro·scop·ic·sil·i·co·vol·ca·no·co·ni·o·sis.
On QWERTY, the hardest word from the list is zyzzyva. Try it, and you'll see why. Keep in mind that word effort is normalized by word length, so a longer word is not necessarily going to be harder to type. The precision of the typing effort model used in carpalx hasn't (and probably won't) be measured.
That's called: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia and it's one of the longest words in the dictionary.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a nonsensical word that is sometimes used to describe something as being great or extraordinary. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is used especially by children and fans of Disney movies to describe something as being really good.
The Oldest Word in the World. It is believed the first spoken word was “Aa,” which meant hey. “Aa” is thought to have first been spoken by an australopithecine in Ethiopia over a million years ago.
A: The word “often” can be pronounced with a silent “t” (the more common pronunciation) or with an audible “t.” How “correct” is the second pronunciation? That depends on the dictionary you consult. Both are correct, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed.).
Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters) In the 17th century, Dr. Edward Strother coined the 52-letter word aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. The word is used to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.
Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon is a fictional dish originating from Aristophanes' 391 B.C. comedy Assemblywomen, deriving from a transliteration of the Ancient Greek ...
1. methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalanyl…isoleucine. You'll notice there's an ellipsis here, and that's because this word, in total, is 189,819 letters long, and it's the chemical name for the largest known protein, titin.