Wzczcwyzzwczczczcwczphobia

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The pronunciation of the phobia's name.

Wzczcwyzzwczczczcwczphobia is the fear of long Polish words/names. Examples are Konstantynopolitańczykowianeczka (a little girl from Constantinople), dziewięćdziesięciokilkuletniemu (ninety-and-some years old one) and pięćdziesięciogroszówka (a 50 groszy coin). The phobia's name is pronounced "F-z-ch-z-ch-f-zz-f-ch-z-ch-z-ch-f-ch-z-phobia".

Treatment

Nauczmy się polskiego! (Nowtch-moo shyeng pol-ski-yeh-goh!)

One easy way to resolve this is to learn Polish spelling.

The long spellings and cz/rz/cz digraphs were developed during the Middle Ages since many of the sounds in Polish did not exist in medieval German or Latin.

Simply think of each digraph as a block: for example, cz is "tch", rz is "zh", and sz is "sh"; so "szcz" is just "sh-tch". Near a consonant or at the end of a word, "rz" is softened to "she".

ą - owng, ong before a consonant. Also om or on

ę - eh-oong, eng before a consonant. Also em or en

ć, ci - chee as in cheap

dzi - jee as in jeep

ł - "w"

ó - oo

ś, si - shee as in sheep

w - just v, f at the end of a word or before a consonant

ż - zh as in vision. Softened to sh before a consonant or at the end of a word

ź, zi - zhee

Divide every word into a syllable: so "czuk" is "chook". Then, practice the same in this example: Grzegorz. In Polish, it is "G-sheh-gosh".

Imagine every word as if it is made of blocks. To make it easier, search the word online so you can divide a word into different parts, and then by syllables.

So for example "Dzie-więć-dzie-się-cio-kil-ku-let-nie-mu", should be seen as "Jyeh-viehtch-jyeh-shyeng-chio-keel-koo-let-nyeh-moo".

Dziel i rządź! - jyel ee zhondj (Divide and conquer)

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