words that should be easy to pronounce but you can't pronounce

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i learnt to say that word from Simon and Garfunkel and they say "PARRRRSLEY!"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link

and S&G are like my yardstick for measuring correct pronunciation.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link

But they are poxy Americans!

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link

but i like americans!

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

i also say "possibilidees" rather than possibilities

e.g. while i look around for my possibilidees.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

and chaainsahhhhhh rather than chainsoaw

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 12:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Iron.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Wennsday instead of Wedensday.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

or even Wednesday.

― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Does anyone pronounce it some other way besides "Wennsday"? Not around my parts they don't.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

why can't anyone pronounce "nuptials" right? nup - shulls. not nup - shoe - ulls.

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link

hmmm, i hear it with a "ch" rather than an "sh"...

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Me too.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link

aubade

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

what about 'nupe choo ulls'?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

actually the 'p' and the 't' are supposed to be silent

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link

GWB cracks my shit up when he pronounces "mullahs" as "moo-lahs." It's "mull-ahs," right?

I, on the other hand, have never pronounced anything incorrectly.

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link

actually the 'p' and the 't' are supposed to be silent

NUH-YALLZ????

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Candicepants, your boyfriend is out of town, surely hyuo can find something bettert o be doing!?!?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't ever quite get "futile" right on first pass. I'm always in a hurry and say "feudal".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Then I repeat myself all fyoo-TAEuhl and sound like a cartoon.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Candicepants, your boyfriend is out of town, surely hyuo can find something bettert o be doing!?!?

HELL NO that would involve leaving the house and talking to people!

― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link

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― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

fuck, i had a feeling that wouldn't work

― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link

i can't say 'rural' very well.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps more of a misreading I guess but I went for ever calling that game Morrowind "Morrowmind".

Also some of these pronunciation things seem regional rather than wrong, ya? Not espresso tho, I'm with Jeremy on that one - IT IS NOT EXPRESSO ARGH.

My nan says maintenance as "maintain-ants", ie the same way maintain is said.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm totally with ailen on 'Rural'. It's the only word that really troubles me.

My Dad has always pronounced available as 'avaidable'. I have no idea where he gets the 'd' from. It always frustrated me that someone could fuck up such a simple word. And in such a weird way.

― Seuss, Friday, 4 March 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link

I've never been able to say 'economical' in my entire life. I remember being 7 years old and practicing on the schoolbus!

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 March 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link

"excuse me" comes out "ex-cruise me."

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 4 March 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link

i've recently developed a problem with saying 'regularly'

― gem (trisk), Friday, 4 March 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't say anything with a "th" in it. Nobody notices, but I notice, and it bugs me greatly.

Also lasagne. I say "la--saaaaaaa-neee-ur". I really stretch the "saaaa". Most distressing.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Now I think about it Im not so sure I say "regularly" right either gem! I tend to say "regyarly". Wtf.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Reservoir = "reserv-wire" when i say it.

― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

i've had several meetings where i've had to talk about the 'ombudsman' and, man, i just can't say it no matter how hard i try.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Geir will be able to help you on the correct pronunciation of "ombudsman"

― Some Dadaismus Implied (Dada), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link

"Mwyn"

Though there's no reason that should be easy to say.

― mei (mei), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link

three years pass...

PHOTOGRAPHY

pronounced by everyone I know (incl. me) as 'fertagerphy'

― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to ax questions, but have since corrected my use of that word.

― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link

My mother

always

says

ALBLUM.

I can't get her to stop and now it just annoys both of us if I mention it.

― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link

pluralism is one i noticed recently. i don't know why, but it comes out something like plurllllsm.

― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link

My boss cannot pronounce "supposedly" for the life of 'im. He only says "supposably".

― muomus (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link

He's really a catalogue of misuses and mispronunciations. One that I have bitten my tongue for years in not correcting: "simplistic" used when "simple" is correct.

― muomus (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link

It's like "-istic" has saved "simple" from itself.

― muomus (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link

I used to ax questions, but have since corrected my use of that word.

Wasn't there an Onion joke about this?

― It is not enough to love mankind – you must be able to stand (Michael White), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link

things i say:

sposed (supposed)
libary (library)
samwitch (sandwitch -- only occasionally)

― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link

caricature - this word is the bane of my enunciatory skills.

― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link

When I was a kid, my mother would ask me to explain how to pronounce words she had trouble with. The one thing she could never entirely get was the name "Charles." I think the idea that it was all one syllable was kind of ridiculous to her.

Long story short, now I can't say the name "Charles" without saying it kind of funny.

― nabisco, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link

Atlantic

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link

I love you.

― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link

humididity - I think about it too much when saying it and introduce a stutter effect.

― Bob Six, Friday, 6 February 2009 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link

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