incentivize always gets me. after the first few syllables i give up and slip into the last bit of "synthesize"
― chilli, Saturday, 27 April 2013 10:12 (ten years ago) link
by the way what's the deal with putting an "L" sound in "both"? is this a common thing?
― chilli, Saturday, 27 April 2013 10:15 (ten years ago) link
Now that I think about it, I have trouble pronouncing my own last name sometimes. It's H0lm, and sometimes I get hung up on the transition from the o to the l.
― how's life, Saturday, 27 April 2013 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Say what?
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 April 2013 12:57 (ten years ago) link
so it sounds like "bolth." have you never heard this? it's fairly rare where i'm from but i hear it enough that i figure it must be some sort of variation in dialect.
― chilli, Saturday, 27 April 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link
noticed that I had the same pronunciation issue when I was talking about Mulholland Drive last night.
― how's life, Sunday, 28 April 2013 12:06 (ten years ago) link
"curriculum" and "Lily" cause me serious difficulty (which sucks when you, like I do, live with someone called Lily).
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 28 April 2013 12:40 (ten years ago) link
Girl at work says 'ibrufen' instead of ibruprofen
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, 28 April 2013 14:04 (ten years ago) link
dog latin says 'ibruprofen' instead of ibuprofen
(sorry)
― Pyotr Ilyich Chai Latte (Paul in Santa Cruz), Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link
lol snap
― the late great, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
scooby doo says "ribruprofen!"
― the late great, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
My mum calls it ibrufen as well. Google suggests this is definitely a thing. A WRONG thing.
― ailsa, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:06 (ten years ago) link
'Canada Day'--my brain wants to eliminate the middle 'da', so I end up overemphasizing it and going 'Can-NUH-DUH-day'.
― lazulum, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
Puyallup, Washington
You pronounce it 'pwee-AWL-up'. But this is non-obvious. Humptulips is much easier.
― Aimless, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
pull a yup?
― the late great, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
until recently i had no idea people were saying "segue" when i heard "seg-way".
― sleepingsignal, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
i always thought it was c'est guaix
― Aimless, Sunday, 28 April 2013 19:30 (ten years ago) link
Speaking of the Northwest, I'm glad I don't live in Oregon because I can't say it. Always comes out "organ" or "or-gon."
― Josefa, Sunday, 28 April 2013 20:29 (ten years ago) link
i can't say "water" normally i can only say it with a gross long island /new jersey accent, "wuh-dda". (shudders) i've tried to correct it.
― Pat Finn, Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:14 (ten years ago) link
maybe it's more like "whugh-der" but still, it's wrong
I panic inwardly a little when I have to say "schedule" because I can never remember if sked- or shed- is the British pronunciation. I pick at random and worry people will jump to conclusions about my class and/or education from my choice. This is bad with other words with an older/French pronunciation vs a less pedantic pronunciation as neither option seems 100% safe, but I guess that's off-topic-ish.
For some reason "duplicate" I end up saying as doo-plicate so as not to say jew-plicate, even though I can successfully say dyu- without angst in other du- words.
When I say "thanks" the th- sound sometimes gets rushed and I feel like I just said "nanks" instead.
I have a very slow mouth, I think. I trip over lots of words, though usually not consistently, and just crash on and hope nobody noticed.
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 28 April 2013 21:29 (ten years ago) link
the hardest word of all is PATHS. there is way too much going on there. any word beginning with a P is difficult, especially a P and then certain vowel sounds-- pussy is really hard to say too!-- and anything ending in THS. how do you know how long to say the th and the s?? i feel like i go on forever. paathhhhssssszzz. having to do readings during mass in grade school and the microphone just blowing up in your face on the plosives-- a reading from the aPOSTle PAUL's letter to the philiPPPPPPians or whatever has probably caused some deep anxiety forever.
― ehkarl, Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:00 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah re "ths", "tenths" is bad. "Tense". "Tennuths". "Tenthuhs-uh". For some reason "months" is easier. We should all go back to saying "tithes" iirc
― susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 28 April 2013 22:13 (ten years ago) link
something
― infinity (∞), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
How to pronounce “midwifery”? Is there a US/UK split?
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 18:00 (three years ago) link
Mid WHIFF ur ee in U.S.
I can't say "google." Most people say GOO-gle. But I segment the word weirdly, and catch on the second hard g, and so it comes out GOOG-ull. When I try to say 'googling' it comes out GOOG-ling.
― america's favorite (remy bean), Saturday, 1 August 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link
I hear differing opinions from yours, remy,
― Time Will Show Leo Weiser (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 1 August 2020 21:28 (three years ago) link
Rural :'(
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 2 August 2020 08:46 (three years ago) link
When I was a child I always had problems with the 'unvoiced th' /θ/ sound - and that is a problem for an English speaker! And it carried over into adulthood so I sometimes found myself having to think about pronouncing words before I said them - I'm OK now though, sorry, though.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 August 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
I was tongueties as a kid so although it was operated on when I was 6ish I strugged to articulate some words and still have mental blocks on. I tend to refactor sentences around them if I can so "you should" becomes "you ought to", "just because" becomes "mainly because" anything involving the dishwasher avoids the name of the machine itself, I pronounce "schedule" the american way with a hard "k" sound. Lots of other examples I'm no longer even conscious of. ( there's another one... "conscious" becomes "cognisant"!)
― thomasintrouble, Sunday, 2 August 2020 09:49 (three years ago) link
https://64.media.tumblr.com/b6b527f27309ea3678704ef206425f26/tumblr_o856abYMZl1u2if3uo1_400.png
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Sunday, 2 August 2020 10:51 (three years ago) link
My pronunciation of "Minneapolis" often gets an extra syllable like "Indianapolis"
― Vinnie, Sunday, 2 August 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link