Tell me words you can't pronounce correctly.

Supercalifragilisticexpialicocious. I fk that one up every time.

Rural ......grrr I hate trying to say it.

This thread is making me paranoid that I am not saying some of these words correctly and just never knew it.

There are a lot of things I CAN say correctly, I just get lazy with them. For instance, the days of the week - if my mom and I are having a conversation and a day comes up, "-day" comes out "-dee". Mon-dee, Tues-dee, etc.

I'm also not quite sure how the word "oil" is pronounced. My mom says "oi-ull", my dad says "oll".

Your days of the week thing really messed me up in kindergarten when we were told to "sound it out" when we spell something. Every day of the week ended in -dee!

Also, the letter "W". In Texas, it's always dub-ya. In kindergarten, I was always like, when are we going to learn the letter double-u! :laugh:

This thread is making me paranoid that I am not saying some of these words correctly and just never knew it.

There are a lot of things I CAN say correctly, I just get lazy with them. For instance, the days of the week - if my mom and I are having a conversation and a day comes up, "-day" comes out "-dee". Mon-dee, Tues-dee, etc.

I'm also not quite sure how the word "oil" is pronounced. My mom says "oi-ull", my dad says "oll".

Nah, they're just regional variations. People who love language intensely don't really get on their ear about people saying things "correctly" because we're more interested in the way the living language is actually used. It doesn't do anybody any good sitting in a museum under glass.

I guess by the beautiful bluebonnets that surround you in your pitcher that you're from my neck o' th' woods. I think "oll" is a more West Texas accent, and "OY-ull" is a less regional pronunciation. I certainly say "Wens-dee" in colloquial speech. I also say "ten" and "tin"/"pen" and "pin" exactly the same way too... "seven, eight, nine, tin!" :laugh:

Ok so when I was younger, I grew up in the north and my parents are from the north. But then we moved to the south and I've lived her for 15 years or so...

When I am discussing Pecan Pie (which I love!) I use two different pronunciations!!!

I use peCANS in my peCAHN pie.

So everytime time I am referring to the actual pie it is peCAHN. But when I am referring to the ingredient that goes in the pie I say it as pecan.

Am I the only person who does this? Maybe it is because of my mixed up background...

daw0518

QUINOA.

I don't care what you say, I still pronounce it 'KEY-NO'.

I'd never heard it pronounced in my life, so for the past two years since I discovered it in the market, I've called it like it's spelled..."quin-oh-ah". Then I recently served it to an american guest and was shocked when he pronouced it "keen-wa". Wth???

It's a Quechua word. Which language is pronounced roughly "KETCH-wah".

Try this one on: Quetzalcohuātl. I think maybe if you know how to pronounce that one, quinoa makes sense more readily.

Ok so when I was younger, I grew up in the north and my parents are from the north. But then we moved to the south and I've lived her for 15 years or so...

When I am discussing Pecan Pie (which I love!) I use two different pronunciations!!!

I use peCANS in my peCAHN pie.

So everytime time I am referring to the actual pie it is peCAHN. But when I am referring to the ingredient that goes in the pie I say it as pecan.

Am I the only person who does this? Maybe it is because of my mixed up background...

I use both pronunciations of "route" depending on how I'm using it in a sentence. If I say Route 66 or some other major highway like that, I always use the "root" pronunciation.

If I'm refering to a small back country road, I always use the other pronunciation.

Ok so when I was younger, I grew up in the north and my parents are from the north. But then we moved to the south and I've lived her for 15 years or so...

When I am discussing Pecan Pie (which I love!) I use two different pronunciations!!!

I use peCANS in my peCAHN pie.

So everytime time I am referring to the actual pie it is peCAHN. But when I am referring to the ingredient that goes in the pie I say it as pecan.

Am I the only person who does this? Maybe it is because of my mixed up background...

If you say "puh-CAN" and not "PEE-CAN" I'm inclined to forgive you. I don't see how people can let a word that sounds so gross come out of their mouth to describe such deliciousness.

Ok so when I was younger, I grew up in the north and my parents are from the north. But then we moved to the south and I've lived her for 15 years or so...

When I am discussing Pecan Pie (which I love!) I use two different pronunciations!!!

I use peCANS in my peCAHN pie.

So everytime time I am referring to the actual pie it is peCAHN. But when I am referring to the ingredient that goes in the pie I say it as pecan.

Am I the only person who does this? Maybe it is because of my mixed up background...

I use both pronunciations of "route" depending on how I'm using it in a sentence. If I say Route 66 or some other major highway like that, I always use the "root" pronunciation.

If I'm refering to a small back country road, I always use the other pronunciation.

I circumvent the problem. A "r-oot" (rhymes with fruit) is what attaches a plant to the ground. A "r-out" (rhymes with trout) is what happens to an army who gets roundly thrashed. That thing people drive on is a "road". Problem solved.

How do you pronounce the largest size of drink that Sonic has? :laugh:

"I was wrong". .I just can't string those three words together to save my life!

I've just realised. When I'm on my Xbox Kinect, I ask it (nicely) to play movies etc for me.

"Play" comes out as "Ply". I'm half Brummie so I have to put on an awfully posh accent for it to understand me.

It can understand "The Borgias Series 3" but not "Play" *sobs*

This thread is making me paranoid that I am not saying some of these words correctly and just never knew it.

There are a lot of things I CAN say correctly, I just get lazy with them. For instance, the days of the week - if my mom and I are having a conversation and a day comes up, "-day" comes out "-dee". Mon-dee, Tues-dee, etc.

I'm also not quite sure how the word "oil" is pronounced. My mom says "oi-ull", my dad says "oll".

Nah, they're just regional variations. People who love language intensely don't really get on their ear about people saying things "correctly" because we're more interested in the way the living language is actually used. It doesn't do anybody any good sitting in a museum under glass.

I guess by the beautiful bluebonnets that surround you in your pitcher that you're from my neck o' th' woods. I think "oll" is a more West Texas accent, and "OY-ull" is a less regional pronunciation. I certainly say "Wens-dee" in colloquial speech. I also say "ten" and "tin"/"pen" and "pin" exactly the same way too... "seven, eight, nine, tin!" :laugh:

After years of choir and working on proper pronunciation for certain words, I don't have much of an accent left in everyday conversation. I've had people ask me if I was a transplant from up north, but I come from a long line of Houstonians. It isn't until I'm around a lot of family or a lot of alcohol that my accent really comes out.

No offense intended, but it looks like one of those poopin' in the bluebonnet pictures. laugh

That's exactly why I took it. You should have heard the argument in the car with my mother - it was quite comical. However, she refused to get any closer for a picture because the grass was quite high and she didn't want to come across any rattlers.

I have trouble saying "rural" - my mouth just doesn't want to form that word well. lol

I have issues with that one too!!!

Me too, it just kind of comes out as a slur.

I also always stumble over "rear wheel drive" It ends up sounding more like "real real drive"

I pronounce wash - "warsh" and sink - "zinc". Not because I can't do it correctly. Simply because it irritates many supposedly sophisticated people.