>>>About spelling fax, a true funny story. Asians have tough time pronouncing "fax.". One day my wife and a bunch of her co-workers are in the office (cubicles) and hear how an Asian co-worker keeps yelling in the phone "Ok. I will fuck you later". And keeps repeating it. Apparently whoever he was talking to, on the phone, kept asking, "What????"
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>>I once listened to a chinese woman, a PhD in medicine, with a vocabulary in latin larger than anyone I know, who couldn't pronounce two consecutive consonants. She just had to insert a vowel in between. Make that "inasert" and "beteween".
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>True. Even Americans have a tough time pronouncing two consecutive consonants. Many times I see my name written in various documents and emails as Dimitry (i between D and m). They think that since they can't pronounce it, I must not know how to spell my name; hence they correct it for me :)

In my case, I'm lucky that there's no bone inside the tongue, or else I'd be sued a lot. The fracture used to happen between l and j in my surname.

For those who asked how do I pronounce my surname, the standard answer was "easily".

On the list of things that anglophones are incapacitated for pronunciation, there are words beginning with kn, gn, pn, pt, ts... and that's not even half of the list.