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The most difficult foreign words Brits struggle to pronounce include ‘hygge, ‘quinoa’ - and 'croissant'.

A poll of 2,000 adults found the Greek dish 'gyros', ‘sauvignon’, and the Vietnamese noodle soup 'pho' also featured high on the list of trickiest sayings.

While 'rendezvous’, 'faux pas', and 'pain au chocolat' were also cited as some of the more awkward to pronounce French words.

Exactly three in 10 find themselves often mispronouncing foreign phrases, with 25 per cent claiming place names as the trickiest to say, and 18 per cent struggling with food and drink the most.

A spokesperson for St Pierre, which commissioned the survey, said: “Mispronouncing foreign words is a relatable struggle for many of us."

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00:00Croissants?
00:02I like to say it because I know it's French.
00:13Croissant.
00:14Croissant.
00:15Croissant.
00:16Croissant.
00:17Yeah.
00:18Croissant.
00:19Croissant.
00:20Croissant.
00:21Croissants.
00:22I say croissant.
00:23Like a...
00:24Like K-E-W.
00:25Croissant.
00:26I like to give it a bit of je ne sais quoi, you know?
00:29Would I think the French would like the way I say croissant?
00:31Definitely not.
00:33No.
00:34No.
00:35No, not at all.
00:36When I put on the accent, they'll be like,
00:38ooh, are you French?
00:39I go, yeah.
00:40I love croissants.
00:42I think I had one about a week ago.
00:45I like different flavours,
00:46whether it's like got almond in it or chocolate.
00:50The words that I struggle to pronounce.
00:54It's like a strange trousers.
00:56Obviously it's Wi-Fi, but I say Wi-Fi.
00:59Ambliance is a common one where I'm from.
01:02People say ambliance instead of ambulance.
01:04Words with an S.
01:05I think I have a slight mispronunciation.
01:08So I say umbrella.
01:10But it's umbrella.
01:12Yeah, umbrella.

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