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

There are mispronunciations that have become oddly ingrained in the corporate culture of my job. It's like 1 person says it incorrectly and then everyone starts making the same mistake.

A couple of examples that come to mind:
peripherals pronounced peripheeals
incidents pronounced incidenses

murder

san(d)*witch

* the d is there in that it affects the transition from n to w but is unpronounced itself. surely that's right? one thing that has always got on my tits is the southern based media's belief that northern (north-western?) english peepz pronounce the word 'fuck' as ' 'fook'. i mean wtf?

this week i've forgotten how to say "unequivocally"

i cannot pronounce the name Robert Rodriguez ever on the first try. thankfully i don't have to say it often.

also "edited it"

I have a friend who can't say pattern (comes out as pat-ren) and it annoys the shit out of me.

My primary school teacher used to do this. She was one of those people who pronounces film as fillum as well. I presumed it was a regional thing.

I can't pronounce my own first name either. Well, I can, but I have two different ways of doing it, and I've never quite settled on which one sounds better.

I knew the word segue as a written word and the word pronounced segway as a thing as well, but i was about 18 before I worked out they were the same thing. I presumably never had cause to write it down/read it out loud before then.

not that anyone's right or wrong on this one, but i once had trouble understanding the name someone meant when she said i needed to talk to "cahr - uhhl." up until then i had only heard "carl" as a one-syllable name.

(i was like "carol? carla? what are you trying to say?")

niche

If I'm being lazy, I sometimes say "problem" kinda like "prollum" and "probably" like "probly". Also, nailing all the consonants in "exactly" can be tricky, ha.

(Is pronouncing "comfortable" with 4 syllables really unusual in the Midwest?? I do sometimes say "comftable" but I just thought that was laziness.)

I knew the word segue as a written word and the word pronounced segway as a thing as well, but i was about 18 before I worked out they were the same thing. I presumably never had cause to write it down/read it out loud before then.

dittz - i always mean to find out the etymology of that word b/c it makes no sense to me that it should be pronounced "segway". for so long i thought people who said "segway" were taking the piss.

For some reason, I've always said "melk." It's just a lot of effort to go from the downward "M" to the upward "I" when pronouncing it, if that makes sense.

i have trouble with "specific". usually comes out something like 'spaz-pacific"

i always mean to find out the etymology of that word b/c it makes no sense to me that it should be pronounced "segway"

wild guess: france

italian, apparently. meaning "it follows" and taken from directions in sheet music.

"lesser" comes out "lessel" 90% of the time unless i am focused on saying the "er".

if french u would say" seh-gyew"
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Puyallup, Washington.

"niche"

saying "neesh" seems pretentious. i say "nitch." but now i'm worrying that i invented this and that no one else says it this way?

quiche or kitch

I'm surprised no one has said hamster yet.

I cant say "statistics". It always comes out "sasiststics"

i always mix up "sale" and "sell"

but now i'm worrying that i invented this and that no one else says it this way?

I say it this way.

I noticed only recently that I have problems with 'gallery' that don't correspond to how I pronounce anything else, it comes out like 'garrarry' unless I'm very deliberate with my tongue shape. A single word speech impediment.

saying "neesh" seems pretentious.

It's a French word. Either say it like it should be pronounced or say alcove. ;)

i can't pronounce my wife's last name. wtf dude

I never understood why Americans say nitch
I had trouble saying 'parliamentary' all week

Had the same thing above about 'segue'. Always pronounced it 'seeg'

wait, it doesn't rhyme with "egg"??

I have trouble with my own first name.

it's pronounced 'neitzsche'

I guess the 'seeg' thing must have come from a mixture of 'vogue' and 'siege' in my mind

Oh, regarding niche -- boy, do I have stories when I moved here. I say <i>neeeeesh</i>. 'Nitch' sounds so strange to my ear.

Talking about phraseology and moving here, it's funny how some people 'corrected' my English because they thought it was incorrect, when really it was either another way of saying something or <i>they</i> were the ones in the wrong. It was frustrating at first, but I got used to it.

neitzsche otm

cliché
quiche
crèche
clique
quickie

are a bunch of fuckers.

albeit

incentivize always gets me. after the first few syllables i give up and slip into the last bit of "synthesize"

by the way what's the deal with putting an "L" sound in "both"? is this a common thing?

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.

by the way what's the deal with putting an "L" sound in "both"? is this a common thing?

Say what?

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.

noticed that I had the same pronunciation issue when I was talking about Mulholland Drive last night.

"curriculum" and "Lily" cause me serious difficulty (which sucks when you, like I do, live with someone called Lily).

Girl at work says 'ibrufen' instead of ibruprofen

dog latin says 'ibruprofen' instead of ibuprofen

(sorry)

lol snap

scooby doo says "ribruprofen!"