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The Mens Room Daily Podcast

10 Hardest English Words To Pronounce

The Mens Room Daily Podcast

Audacy

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Mens Room Top 10

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0:00.0

Miles, what day is it, my friend?

0:02.0

Monday.

0:02.6

It is indeed Monday.

0:03.5

It's also National Speech Pathologist Day.

0:06.4

The Minteroftop Top 10.

0:09.2

The Minter of Top 10!

0:14.8

So today we celebrate and send a big thank you to all those speech pathologists

0:18.2

that are helping people speak better in the English language,

0:20.8

and so I decided to help out by jumping in the hardest words to pronounce in English.

0:26.3

All right.

0:26.9

This can also span not to mention just English speakers and definitely people that are trying to learn the English language.

0:32.3

So they start here.

0:32.9

Is this just English overall or like with an American accent?

0:39.6

This is English overall. Okay. This is English overall. It like with an American accent this is English overall okay this is English overall it might it might even be with English accents I'm not I'm not

0:43.6

positive I just know the way we say rural like English people can't say rural

0:48.0

number two on the list oh rural rural rural rural rural rural have you ever

0:53.6

there was a there was a, there was a, let's see, 30 Rock. Apparently, a character started in a film called the Rural Juror. Rural juror. Rural juror. I just follow these two guys that always come over to America and they're British. And they're still like, I still don't know how to say that word. I don't know what you guys are saying. Rural juror. World juror. I always hate a Pythagorean. Just say the cut. Yeah. They actually start out with one of the ranks of an army officer. Captain. Corporal. Colonel. Colonel. Colonel. Colonial. Yeah, colonel. Colonal. Well, yeah, we spell it stupid, but yeah. Right. And I... We want some colonal action tonight. And so I wanted to start with that one. They have it as the number one one. But honestly, I think it's just for people that are trying to learn the English language because once you look at that one, it throws you off because it really doesn't follow any of the rules. Because that's the thing about,

1:46.0

it's one thing I really like about the English language.

1:59.5

One, we have more words than it was any other language because we have so many words to say the same thing. Sure. But also we have all these rules about speaking the English language. And then they'll say a word. It doesn't apply to that one. Yeah. Okay, what about this? It doesn't. Even the word phonetic.

2:00.4

Yes.

2:01.3

Starts with the pH.

2:02.6

And I'm like, then why is that?

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