hardest to pronounce

[Laurence Horn]

>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.

Larry

>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Barnhart" <barnhart at HIGHLANDS.COM>
>To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 11:26 AM
>Subject: hardest to pronounce
>
>>A colleague asked me what is  the hardest word to pronounce, besides _no_?
>>
>>Any candidates would be appreciated.
>>