Tell me words you can't pronounce correctly.

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  • _Lovely77_
    _Lovely77_ Posts: 993 Member
    Wolf. For the life of me I can't sneak that darn "L" in there it comes out like woof. And yet, ironically, I can pronounce wolves just fine lol
  • kaaaaylee
    kaaaaylee Posts: 398
    interminable. deficit.
  • kaaaaylee
    kaaaaylee Posts: 398
    aluminum
    Massachusetts
    cinnamon

    Aw, my state <3 just call it MASS and all your problems are solved!
  • 40andFindingFitness
    40andFindingFitness Posts: 497 Member
    Car, park, yard... the Boston accent just kills it.
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  • AtticWindow
    AtticWindow Posts: 295 Member
    Abominable. I actually think I say it correctly, but it feels so weird. Usually, my biggest challenge is when I learn words by reading them and then pronounce them incorrectly; when I was a kid, I said "clan-des-tine" instead of "clan-dest-in" for clandestine.
  • kaaaaylee
    kaaaaylee Posts: 398
    new englander here boston bred

    blinker = "blinkah"
    soda = "pop"
    car = "cah"


    lol

    I have gotten better at correcting through out the years but sometimes i cant control it :ohwell:


    Wait but soda is soda...and I'm born and raised in MA myself.
  • Icelandic_Saga
    Icelandic_Saga Posts: 2,926 Member
    My hubby has trouble with the word aluminum :) I think it's adorable
  • shining_light
    shining_light Posts: 384 Member
    In a legal proceeding a while back, I had a witness saying "pacifically" instead of "specifically." Embarrassingly, because everything that goes on a legal record is supposed to be exactly what was said, I debated writing "pacifically" even though he was really just mispronouncing the word "specifically." I honestly don't remember what I chose to do with that. I sincerely HOPE I wrote "specifically".

    For myself, the middle name of the guy I had my longest relationship with was "Laurence", said with the French pronunciation. For whatever reason, I could never, ever say it properly. I can't remember what reason I ever had to say it out loud, but it came up a few times and I could never pronounce it. Weird.
  • 40andFindingFitness
    40andFindingFitness Posts: 497 Member
    new englander here boston bred

    blinker = "blinkah"
    soda = "pop"
    car = "cah"


    lol

    I have gotten better at correcting through out the years but sometimes i cant control it :ohwell:


    Wait but soda is soda...and I'm born and raised in MA myself.

    Yup, soda is definitely soda (or sodah). What's with the pop lol? Feeling the New England struggle.
  • mank32
    mank32 Posts: 1,323 Member
    i was 8 or 9 before i could say "perfume" correctly. it was "pew-firm." :blushing:
  • harribeau2012
    harribeau2012 Posts: 644 Member
    My hubby has trouble with the word aluminum :) I think it's adorable


    this is always a biggy here, on the box American programmes often use what sounds like ALOOMINUM and here it's ALU(YOU)MINIUM I have trouble with Slazenger (but only when I've had a beer)
  • Crimson_Fire
    Crimson_Fire Posts: 2,504 Member
    I'm from the south...apparently there's a lot of words I can't pronounce correctly.
  • harribeau2012
    harribeau2012 Posts: 644 Member
    My 2nd son could not do Bolognese (sauce) or Microwave......so he would say, please heat up the bogonaize in the Michaelwave !
  • So_Much_Fab
    So_Much_Fab Posts: 1,146 Member
    This just started recently - when I want to say orchid my brain says orchard.
  • DevSanchez
    DevSanchez Posts: 314 Member
    new englander here boston bred

    blinker = "blinkah"
    soda = "pop"
    car = "cah"


    lol

    I have gotten better at correcting through out the years but sometimes i cant control it :ohwell:


    Wait but soda is soda...and I'm born and raised in MA myself.

    Yup, soda is definitely soda (or sodah). What's with the pop lol? Feeling the New England struggle.



    I'm Canadian. It's pop.
  • SweetestDisaster
    SweetestDisaster Posts: 56
    validity..... gets me every time!

    i want to say valid-ity lol
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    As an American expat living in the UK, I get told there are LOTS of words I can't pronounce correctly. :|
  • shutyourpieholeandsquat
    shutyourpieholeandsquat Posts: 1,394 Member
    from hearing my mom talk about the way my brother used to say it when he was little..... I tend to say

    "to con be tinued" instead of "to be continued"
  • sw33tp3a11
    sw33tp3a11 Posts: 4,646 Member
    If I speak Spanish I can't seem to pronounce any word with the letter R. I can't seem to roll the R's correctly lol Only when speaking Spanish though.
  • whovian67
    whovian67 Posts: 608 Member
    Oxygen.. & Diltiazem
  • Left4Good
    Left4Good Posts: 304
    I pronounce alot of words weirdly. Like coffee and wash, washing, washer, etc... those are the ones off the top of my head.
  • La_Malfaisante
    La_Malfaisante Posts: 1,509 Member
    A lot of them...I'm French
  • cnhamilton12
    cnhamilton12 Posts: 45 Member
    I call Cracker Barrel...crackle barrel. Does that count?
  • doddy44
    doddy44 Posts: 8 Member
    Chimera. I can never remember how to pronounce it and always say it wrong. Yet I am constantly trying to interject the idea into conversations. Like now ;)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
  • jollyjoe321
    jollyjoe321 Posts: 529 Member
    "World"

    It comes from when I was little, when we were learning sounds, our teacher was Irish, so when she said it, it sounded different to everyone else, now I say an odd combination between "werld" and "wuld." Doesn't roll off the tongue though.

    I also have difficulty in correctly pronouncing "Joe," which is unfortunate as it's my name hahaa! It comes out with a "ew" sound, if I introduce myself, the other person usually goes "nice to meet you Jew." Kinda frustrating lol
  • girlinteepee
    girlinteepee Posts: 33 Member
    Armoire,
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    only with the word prodigy. Some part of my brain always decides to pronounce it "progidy", even though I know it's not pronounced like that.
  • MscGray
    MscGray Posts: 304 Member
    magnificent usually comes out something like magnificicant....i can usually pull it off if i break it down and talk real slow, but if I'm excited and try to rattle it off....forget about it!
  • tiptoethruthetulips
    tiptoethruthetulips Posts: 3,371 Member
    Chimney...could be a local dialect thing (Manchester UK) or family thing but I always say chimley

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