Tell me words you can't pronounce correctly.

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!!

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.

It's not the American pronunciation... it's the French one, whence the word comes, so that's why it wins.

Oddly, the Google pronunciation gives it as "you-ver". Which makes me stabby.

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....see all my prior posts. Born in the North to Northern parents, raised in the South, but surrounded by people who are from all over the dang place.

When my boy spelt tree for the first time he wrote chree. I thought I better enunciate my words better. How about sect and sex.

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!!

That's very interesting, but you're right, it's a different matter called anomia. If it's happening more and more frequently, I would seriously recommend mentioning it to your doctor. Not to alarm you.

When my boy spelt tree for the first time he wrote chree. I thought I better enunciate my words better. How about sect and sex.

Do you also say "chune" for the melody of a musical piece? Not to mock you, but I find that accent feature very charming.

If you pluralize "sect", it does sound exactly like "sex" unless you slow it down a lot.

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Not exactly common, but I do love to cook and am usually very good with pronunciation, so the fact that I can never seem to say this right aggravates me.

My husband mocks me all the time because I always say Root properly when it's with another syllable (root beer, rooted, rooting), but if it's just root I pronounce it closer to Riut. Sort of the same way you would pronounce the ou sound in Could. He says it must be a Minnesotan thing, but might just be a me thing.

I think it may be an Upper Midwest thing. I lived in NW Illinois until I was 8, and that "oo" as in "could" or "hook" is the one they use in "roof" (rhymes with "hoof") and "root". Thanks for reminding me about yet another variation!

If we are gonna include kids....

My 5 yr old says OOH-jah-ly, for the word usually. I have corrected her for about 3 years now and it still comes out wrong.
My 2 yr old sa DUNK instead of DONE. (i.e.: Me: Are done with your dinner? Him: I dunk)

Yesterday my 5 yr old was picked to do the Word of the Day on the school's news channel and she had to read the word and say a short definition and sentence to go with it. The word was CONFIDENT. When she came home and re-created it for me, she kept using a 'n' in place of the 'd' and saying CONFINENT.

Honestly, it is all so cute that I am always sad when they stop saying something wrong and start getting it right. One day my little boy will say "done" instead of "dunk"...and I will probably cry!

"Acrylic." I have also been told that "Don" and "Dawn" aren't pronounced the same, but I pronounce them the same – I think that's a CA vs. LA accent thing, though.

Nothing personal, but my name is Dawn, and I intensely dislike when people call me by a man's name. It never occured to me that the person speaking it may not be able to pronounce it correctly. I usually have to get all Boston on them. I will keep this bit of info in mind for the future, though, so thanks for sharing :flowerforyou:

So how do you say your name? I don't know any other way to say "Dawn."

It's Dawn, like fawn, yawn, or lawn. I never had anyone call me "Don" (with the "ON" sound) until I entered the workforce. I've literally had to say "no, I am not a man. It is DAAWWWWWN. Like Awning" ... sheesh.