Tell me words you can't pronounce correctly.
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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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Innovative.
I end up saying it really slowly, accidentally adding a few extra letters along the way so it comes out sounding something like: "in-iv-ah-tah-tiv"0 -
After a few years of listening/watching my husband play Call of Duty, he STILL does not pronounce the word "melee" correct. He says it exactly how it's spelled. It's pronounced "MAY-LAY"!!! We had an argument/fight over this once, upon which he told me to just never correct him again.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"
Another one that can't say "rural". I just substitute country.
Also, world and roar sometimes give me problems. When I was younger, I had problems switching my w and r sounds, and they still give me trouble on some words.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...
No, it definitely comes out like PEE-CAN when I say it that way...0 -
worcestershire sauce
To this day, I am still not quite sure what the correct way to say this word is..............obviously I mean "Worcestershire" and not "sauce". Lol I can pronounce "sauce"
^^ THIS ...always lol I let guy fieri say it for me.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.0 -
Specific. Gets me everytime!0
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It's "new-CLEE-are" not "new-CUE-ler" :explode:0
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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...
nope not the only one! it's very common where i live actually0 -
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...
No, it definitely comes out like PEE-CAN when I say it that way...0 -
I can pronounce most words correctly. But my problem is mental. There are times where the word I am trying to say will not come out of my mouth. Even if it is CAR. I will be able to talk but I can't say CAR. I will say, you know that thing we drive around in??? It has happened on the phone with customers too, very embarrasing. I work in the mortgage business and I was trying to say interest rate and I could not! I just put him on hold and tried to calm my mind down. UGH!!0
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