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Languages and Linguistics

PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. And yes, of course, these are words we use every day.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Thu May 23, 2019, 09:28 PM

May 2019

None of those are remotely common. I consider myself someone with a pretty big vocabulary and the only one on that list I already knew was Bourrée, and that's because I know a little bit about ballet.

Those are simply examples of the words used in spelling bees which are hardly representative of the words any of us will ever need to write down.

In short, dumb article.

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These are the hardest-to-spell words in the English language, CNN: [View all] Stuart G May 2019 OP

I can pronounce the first, guillaumeb May 2019 #1

They are all foreign words cyclonefence May 2019 #2

And yes, of course, these are words we use every day. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2019 #3