Tell me words you can't pronounce correctly.
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I have a really hard time pronouncing "rural" ,"Marlboro", and "Worcestershire."0
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Supercalifragilisticexpialicocious. I fk that one up every time.0
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damn were-shesh-ter sauce.
I've had it wrong for YEARS.
THIS^^^0 -
Rural ......grrr I hate trying to say it.0
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damn were-shesh-ter sauce.
I've had it wrong for YEARS.
THIS^^^
And this, too...hahaha0 -
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:0 -
I know someone who actually pronounces the "wh" sound in common words like "which". Don't you just say, "wich". Not "whhhhiich"!!:noway:0
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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".
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:0 -
These are the most common ones I don't pronounce right:
Specific = Pacific
Cinnamon - Cinnaminum
Penalty = Pelanty
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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...0 -
I just think of it as a phrase. I can't think of a context I'd say "entendre" without the "double" prefix, so in my head it all comes as one and I pronounce it all in French.
I am indeed0 -
daw0518QUINOA.
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???
Try this one on: Quetzalcohuātl. I think maybe if you know how to pronounce that one, quinoa makes sense more readily.0 -
give up
quit
can't
just one bite
not today
I'll start tomorrow0 -
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.0 -
Specific always mess me up0
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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...0 -
+1 for rural.
I feel like I sound like an old car trying to turn over.0 -
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".
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:
No offense intended, but it looks like one of those poopin' in the bluebonnet pictures. :laugh:0 -
daw0518QUINOA.
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???
Try this one on: Quetzalcohuātl. I think maybe if you know how to pronounce that one, quinoa makes sense more readily.
:noway: :ohwell: Excuse me. Quechua??? What/where is that? I've got it on that word though, "ketch-all-co-halt", right?0 -
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.
How do you pronounce the largest size of drink that Sonic has? :laugh:0 -
One that I have to make sure I think about before I say it is Crayon. I don't think that it's so much the fact that I can't say it, but rather that I learned how to say it incorrectly, and now as an adult I basically have to force myself to say it right. I have a hard time not pronouncing it Crown.0
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"I was wrong". .I just can't string those three words together to save my life!0
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daw0518QUINOA.
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???
Try this one on: Quetzalcohuātl. I think maybe if you know how to pronounce that one, quinoa makes sense more readily.
:noway: :ohwell: Excuse me. Quechua??? What/where is that? I've got it on that word though, "ketch-all-co-halt", right?
Teehee. Say kets-ill-kwat-ill.0 -
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*0 -
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".
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:
No offense intended, but it looks like one of those poopin' in the bluebonnet pictures. :laugh:0 -
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".
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.0 -
One that I have to make sure I think about before I say it is Crayon. I don't think that it's so much the fact that I can't say it, but rather that I learned how to say it incorrectly, and now as an adult I basically have to force myself to say it right. I have a hard time not pronouncing it Crown.0
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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"0 -
Just had a discussion with DH about oeuvre. I insisted it was "uhvh". He insisted it was "oohvreh". Turns out I use the British pronunciation and he uses the American. We live in the US, so.... I guess he won. I'm not going to change, though. "oohvreh" sounds dumb.0
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I pronounce wash - "warsh" and sink - "zinc". Not because I can't do it correctly. Simply because it irritates many supposedly sophisticated people.0
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