hardest to pronounce

[Alice Faber]

Laurence Horn said:
>>For most, "I Love You" is hardest to pronounce - when said the first time
>>LOL
>
>Heh heh.  In the purely phonetic sense, I always had trouble with the
>(non-reduced) form of the Russian word for "hello" when I was trying
>to learn that language, with all those consonant clusters that I
>won't try to reproduce here, but I assume the implicit domain is
>English words, in which case one oft-cited example of the hardest
>monosyllabic word is "sixths" with the final -[ks(th)s] cluster.

My first thought was along those lines; "strengths".
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