English speakers get weirded out when too many consonants pile up in a word. Which is why we tend to tremble before Ljubljana, capital city of Slovenia.
Here’s a handy guide that will make Ljubljana much easier to spell:
- LJ
- UB
- LJ
- ANA
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I think the true crisis here
I think the true crisis here is one of pronunciation. I refuse to learn how to spell anything, the spelling of which leaves me flapping my lips with no idea whether there’s a language in the world I’m making sense in. It’s a disgraceful name and should be banned from print until guidelines for pronunciation are issued.
Culture currents as broad as
Culture currents as broad as your mind and as deep as your soul. Within our alphabet, estranged from our syntax, they say the same things we do.
How to pronounce Ljubljana.
How to pronounce Ljubljana.
Ahhh! Thank you, Peter. You
Ahhh! Thank you, Peter. You may all resume.
I take that back partly. That
I take that back partly. That Web site gives in audio form only the easy one of two pronunciations, which I suspect represents just a conventional English garbling. The printed phonetic guide for the other one is scary as I imagined, although I suppose it’s a source of encouragment.
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