If you’ve ever heard Germans try to pronounce “squirrel”, it’s hilarious. I’ve known many extremely bilingual Germans who couldn’t pronounce it at all. It came out sounding roughly like “squall”, or they’d over-pronounce the “r” and it would be “squi-rall”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth
I’ve heard “squirrel” was used to trap Germans.
I wonder if any of the Axis even bothered to have such a system to check for Americans.
“Bawn-jehr-no”
I speak Italian first-best.
If you’ve ever heard Germans try to pronounce “squirrel”, it’s hilarious. I’ve known many extremely bilingual Germans who couldn’t pronounce it at all. It came out sounding roughly like “squall”, or they’d over-pronounce the “r” and it would be “squi-rall”
Sqverrrrl.
Oh yeah, I forgot about how they add a “v” sound to it.