Map: the french place names you find hardest to pronounce

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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. RELATED ARTICLES TATI, TOUTOU, TEUF-TEUF: FRENCH


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