Grace Hampson, 11, who is a pupil at Prospect Bank Primary, finds it hard to pronounce the letters t and k.

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First, ahuacate was too hard for Americans to pronounce.

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Or it may have been a reference to the style of coverage, which accelerated the trend of focusing on U.S. winners (of medals and endorsement contracts) while ignoring anonymous foreigners with hard-to-pronounce names.

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