POLAND: Thousands turn out to a giant spelling bee in Katowice

Record ID: 232390

  • Title: POLAND: Thousands turn out to a giant spelling bee in Katowice
  • Date: 27th October 2006
  • Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (English/ Polish) UNIDENTIFIED CHILD SAYING: "The most difficult sentence was (POLISH TONGUE-TWISTER)
  • Embargoed: 11th November 2006 12:00
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  • Location: Poland
  • Country: Poland
  • Topics: Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
  • Reuters ID: LVAEIN27U8E29P18VUVISPFET9GM
  • Story Text: Around five thousand people tested their language skills on a giant spelling bee in Katowice on Saturday (October 14).
    Children as young as 14 years took on tongue-breaking words -- impossible to pronounce even for some native Poles.
    "The Polish language is very difficult and I'm not sure if there is anybody else not from Poland who can say (popular "tongue twister"): w Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzczcinie."
    The Polish language belongs to the Slavic group of languages, which also incorporates Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, Slovene, Serbo Croatian and Bulgarian among others.
    In comparison to other European languages, it has preserved many archaic features and tricky features like postalveolar sounds, hard to pronounce affricates like "dz" or digraphs.
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