在Reddit上，最近用戶JustATreeNut邀請來自世界各地的朋友們提交他們認為最難拼的英語單詞。榜首是一個英國城鎮的名字雖然發音為wuss-ter-sheer，但這麼發音好像把大部分非母語是英語的人搞糊塗了。
The hardest word in the English language for foreigners to the pronounce is Worcestershire, according to a recent poll.
根據民意投票，對外國人而言，英語裡面最難發音的一個單詞是Worcestershire。
On a recent Reddit thread, user JustATreeNut, asked people from around the world to submit English words they struggled with most.
在Reddit上，最近用戶JustATreeNut邀請來自世界各地的朋友們提交他們認為最難拼的英語單詞。
Top of the list is the name of an English county , which although pronounced wuss-ter-sheer seems to confound most non-English speakers when they attempt it.
榜首是一個英國城鎮的名字雖然發音為wuss-ter-sheer，但這麼發音好像把大部分非母語是英語的人搞糊塗了。
While squirrel proves particularly tricky for Germans.
而squirrel對德國人而言是特別難發音的。
THE TEN HARDEST ENGLISH WORDS：史上最難發音的十個詞：
1. Worcestershire
2. Specific
3. Squirrel
4. Brewery
5. Phenomenon
6. Derby
7. Regularly
8. February
9. Edited
10. Heir
And certain words which appear on the list, including brewery and edited, seem rather straightforward to an average Brit.
榜單上出現的其他的一些詞，包括brewery 和edited，對一般英國人而言太簡單了。
Others, including phenomenon and February are notorious tongue twisters even fornative English speakers.
其它的，包括phenomenon 和February都是臭名昭著的繞口詞，甚至對英國本土人而言。
The last two words to make the top ten were Derby, which is pronounced darby, and heir.
排名前十的最後兩個單詞是Derby，發音為darby，還有heir。
Of course, weve all had our embarrassing slips when attempting to pronounce unfamiliar words.None more mortifying, perhaps, than John Travoltas linguistic misstep at the 2014 Oscars, where he pronounced Frozen star Idina Menzels name as: Adele Dazeem, for the entire world to see.And lets not forget Benedict Cumberbatch, the Oscar-nominated British thespian who famously recorded an entire voiceover for a 2009 BBC nature documentary pronouncing the word penguin as peng-wing.
當然，試著去念不熟的單詞，我們都會有很多很尷尬的過失。也許，沒有比約翰特拉沃爾塔在2014年的奧斯卡上的發音錯誤更丟人的，全世界的人都知道他把伊迪娜門澤爾的名字念成了阿黛爾達奇姆。我們也別忘了本尼迪克特康伯巴奇，獲得奧斯卡提名的英國著名演員，在2009年英國廣播公司自然紀錄片上把單詞penguin讀成了peng-wing。
The hardest word in the English language for foreigners to the pronounce is Worcestershire, according to a recent poll.
根據民意投票，對外國人而言，英語裡面最難發音的一個單詞是Worcestershire。
On a recent Reddit thread, user JustATreeNut, asked people from around the world to submit English words they struggled with most.
在Reddit上，最近用戶JustATreeNut邀請來自世界各地的朋友們提交他們認為最難拼的英語單詞。
Top of the list is the name of an English county , which although pronounced wuss-ter-sheer seems to confound most non-English speakers when they attempt it.
榜首是一個英國城鎮的名字雖然發音為wuss-ter-sheer，但這麼發音好像把大部分非母語是英語的人搞糊塗了。
While squirrel proves particularly tricky for Germans.
而squirrel對德國人而言是特別難發音的。
THE TEN HARDEST ENGLISH WORDS：史上最難發音的十個詞：
1. Worcestershire
2. Specific
3. Squirrel
4. Brewery
5. Phenomenon
6. Derby
7. Regularly
8. February
9. Edited
10. Heir
And certain words which appear on the list, including brewery and edited, seem rather straightforward to an average Brit.
榜單上出現的其他的一些詞，包括brewery 和edited，對一般英國人而言太簡單了。
Others, including phenomenon and February are notorious tongue twisters even fornative English speakers.
其它的，包括phenomenon 和February都是臭名昭著的繞口詞，甚至對英國本土人而言。
The last two words to make the top ten were Derby, which is pronounced darby, and heir.
排名前十的最後兩個單詞是Derby，發音為darby，還有heir。
Of course, weve all had our embarrassing slips when attempting to pronounce unfamiliar words.None more mortifying, perhaps, than John Travoltas linguistic misstep at the 2014 Oscars, where he pronounced Frozen star Idina Menzels name as: Adele Dazeem, for the entire world to see.And lets not forget Benedict Cumberbatch, the Oscar-nominated British thespian who famously recorded an entire voiceover for a 2009 BBC nature documentary pronouncing the word penguin as peng-wing.
當然，試著去念不熟的單詞，我們都會有很多很尷尬的過失。也許，沒有比約翰特拉沃爾塔在2014年的奧斯卡上的發音錯誤更丟人的，全世界的人都知道他把伊迪娜門澤爾的名字念成了阿黛爾達奇姆。我們也別忘了本尼迪克特康伯巴奇，獲得奧斯卡提名的英國著名演員，在2009年英國廣播公司自然紀錄片上把單詞penguin讀成了peng-wing。
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