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

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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

My pronunciation of "Minneapolis" often gets an extra syllable like "Indianapolis"

Vinnie, Sunday, 2 August 2020 11:02 (three years ago) link


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