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Unpronounceable

adjective
1.
Impossible or difficult to pronounce correctly.
2.
Very difficult to pronounce correctly.  Synonym: unutterable.  "Unutterable consonant clusters"






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"Unpronounceable" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Nlka, an unpronounceable combination of letters, resulting from a most interesting though variously ...
— My Native Land • James Cox

... attempt is very large indeed.[169] The attempt itself has had no success with the mass of the public. This I do not regret. Had the world found that the change was useful, I should have gone contentedly with the stream; but not without regretting our old language. I admit the difficulties which our unpronounceable spelling puts in the way of learning to read: and I have no doubt that, as affirmed, it is easier to teach children phonetically, and afterwards to introduce them to our common system, than to proceed in the usual way. ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) • Augustus de Morgan

... hard travel found them camped in the last fringe of cottonwood that fronted the glacial slopes, their number augmented now by a native from a Russian village with an unpronounceable name, who, at the price of an extortionate bribe, had agreed to pilot them through. For three days they lay idle, the taut walls of their tent thrumming to an incessant fusillade of ice particles that whirled down ahead of the blast, while ...
— The Silver Horde • Rex Beach

... which the apartments of the Bey opened. Two rusty, old fashioned cannons were in the middle of the court. Two wretched-looking men, and a woman, detained for theft, occupied one of the cells. They asked us if we knew where somebody, with an unpronounceable name, had gone. But not having had the honour of knowing any body of the light-fingered profession, we could give no ...
— Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family • Andrew Archibald Paton

... Neutral present a mutilated appearance to the eye, and, what is a much greater sin in an international language, offer grave difficulties of pronunciation to speakers of many nations. Words ending with a double consonant are very frequent, e.g. nostr patr; and these will be unpronounceable for many nations, e.g. for an Italian or a Japanese. Euphony is one of the strongest of the many strong points of Esperanto. In it the principle of maximum of internationality has been applied to sounds as well as forms, and there are very few sounds that will be a stumbling-block ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark


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