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During World War 2 Britain had a pronounciation test for suspected German spies. Similar to "Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Woolworths". Apparently Germans found the pronounciation extremely difficult and anybody who couldn't say it was suspected of being German. Does anybody know what it is?

by /u/James29UK in /r/AskHistorians

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