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MAP: The French place names you find hardest to pronounce
Caen, Pineuilh, Cunlhat: which of our readers' suggestions do you find trickiest to say?
We recently asked Connexion readers for the French place names they find difficult or impossible to pronounce.
Suggestions included Cunlhat (Puy-de-Dôme), Clermont-Pouyguillès (Gers) , Ouilly-du-Houley (Calvados), Marquixanes (Pyrénées-Orientales), Houeillès (Lot-et-Garonne), Fouesnant (Finistère), Caen (Calvados) and Pineuilh (Gironde).
Read more: Updated: Houeillès, Reims: Which is the hardest French place to say?
We have created a map of these places so that you can make sure to visit them and give pronouncing their name a go when you are next in the area.
Below is a searchable version of the map.
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