What words do you have trouble pronouncing?

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  • ericalynn104
    ericalynn104 Posts: 382 Member
    worcestershire sauce

    THIS!!!! Haha!
  • sarahbear1981
    sarahbear1981 Posts: 610 Member
    Crayon
  • capabledesire
    capabledesire Posts: 60
    Breakfast...no idea why I can't say this word and everyone makes fun of me. I swear at my funeral everyone will tell their breakfast stories.
  • LethaSue
    LethaSue Posts: 285 Member
    My yankee husband seems to get a kick out of it when i say the word ice. Being from Texas we drink alot of tea and I like alot of ice. I ask for more ice and he hears it as I want some more "*kitten*".
  • HealthyHappy120
    HealthyHappy120 Posts: 262
    I know its spelled "Willis tower" but I say "Sears tower"
  • shastar
    shastar Posts: 21 Member
    Apocalypse and Kiosk. Also I guess I say vax and fax the same. In the 80's I used to work on a vax computer,. Later when the fax machine was popular, I would pronounce fax the same way I pronounced vax. My husband has been correcting me ever since. I guess I can't hear the difference and you would think the beginning constant would be pronounced the same.
  • spapsidero
    spapsidero Posts: 60
    Me too! My best friend who is from Florida (southern Yankee) makes fun of the way I talk. The one word I say that she really gives me a hard time with is diabetes. She says the way I say it makes it sound like something sexual. Lol. So crazy.
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    I have a hard time prouncing "I'm wrong", it comes out sounding like "its your fault"
    Hahahha

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :drinker: FOR THE WIN
  • spapsidero
    spapsidero Posts: 60
    I got a Yankee husband too. Know how u feel. Lol.
  • _VoV
    _VoV Posts: 1,494 Member
    acai
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    Crayon

    this is funny, I've met plenty of adults who still say Crown, it's hilarious to me
  • spapsidero
    spapsidero Posts: 60
    Anything with an R and a W. I have a speech problem and I have to try really, really hard. xD I get them confused so things come out like this if I speak too fast (or without thinking), "She rowe a wed dwess at the redding." (Translation: She wore a red dress at the wedding.)

    I have the same problem. War and roar sound the same when I say them and for the life of me I can not say cordoroy!
  • rbeatty63
    rbeatty63 Posts: 132
    I am a southerner, too and though I really know how to pronounce towel and boil they always come out of my mouth as 'tal' and 'bowl'. As in "could you hand me that tal to dry my hands, I spilled some bowld water on them." haha
  • bjfmade
    bjfmade Posts: 543 Member
    Rural
  • bjfmade
    bjfmade Posts: 543 Member
    I have a hard time prouncing "I'm wrong", it comes out sounding like "its your fault"

    Love this lmao
  • 2dayirun4me
    2dayirun4me Posts: 336 Member
    Oh lord this is great!! My mom was from West Virginia so I have trouble with a lot of words like Wheel I pronounce it as will...and then there is Because mine is more like B'cause.
  • njmp
    njmp Posts: 277 Member
    In my head, when I read misshapen, I think miss-happen
  • njmp
    njmp Posts: 277 Member
    quinoa. I know how to say it, I just happen to disagree ;)
  • Mkserpa
    Mkserpa Posts: 136
    According to my husband, "aunt" and "Italian" I say funny :/

    I say "aunt" how it's spelled, and supposed to be pronounced (not like the bug, 'ant')

    And "Italian" I say with a short 'i' instead of EYEtalian. He makes fun of me >:(
  • navywifeandmomof4
    navywifeandmomof4 Posts: 958 Member
    Alzheimer when i say it it sounds like old timers
  • jcnuebel
    jcnuebel Posts: 19
    Sauvignon :drinker:
  • RileeMarie
    RileeMarie Posts: 113
    Poem...cant help putting in the southern drawl
  • KJVBear33
    KJVBear33 Posts: 628
    Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. :noway:

    Can you believe I ran into this word TWICE (!) in the last year.

    And by the way, it's the fear of long words.

    WOW, and try to say it three times fast too..........ha ha.........you could get a lot of money from bets!! Tell them "hey, I bet you can say this word ten times fast........bet you a million dollars! " :)

    I used to correct a friend of mine all the time about how she pronounce process........she'd say "PROcess"...........instead of making the "o" an "ah" sound......
  • onewhodiets
    onewhodiets Posts: 67 Member
    Good one!
  • Dilfster
    Dilfster Posts: 416 Member
    spoon
    boat
    coke
    water
    list goes on...
  • moniquelessard
    moniquelessard Posts: 418
    quinoa. I know how to say it, I just happen to disagree ;)

    Me too! People correct me, so I correct them back using the improper pronunciation just to mess with them. Gets them all frazzled. ;)
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    Washington or wash. I have a Missouri accent I guess and it comes out Warshington and warsh. Also Wisconsin comes out Wesconsin. My whole life I didn't realize I was pronouncing Wisconsin wrong until a few years ago a co-worker made fun of me because of the way I pronounced it.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I'm Canadian and I guess I say dawler for dollar, how do you guys say it?

    I have no idea. xD I say dawler as well. And I'm from Southern Florida. :3
    Maybe doll-are. But that sounds so silly to me!

    You mean it's not pronounced dawler? :huh:
  • crimznrose
    crimznrose Posts: 282 Member
    Worchestershire (as in the sauce)....I think I say it right but it kind of comes out like Daffy Duck or Sylvester are saying it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6usx5vS238Y&feature=share
  • mrslupercio2011
    mrslupercio2011 Posts: 10
    Quinoa!
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