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It's still a mystery that the international phonetics alphabet is not more in use unless it has to do with the size of the required keyboard...
You'll never know how to correctly pronounce the name Vercingétorix unless you are French. Even for Anglophones who have spent most of their lives with Francophones it's next to impossible. The syllables 'un', 'in', 'on' are physically difficult and some never master it. Vice versa, 'th' is as complicated for the French.
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