Words you cannot pronounce properly?

[Mandalagan 241]

when im saying plural to fast i instead say "prulal" 

[Mallow Gloom 26]

I have a hard time saying existential  

[Sonic Shimmer 4,133]

An abbreviation rather than a word, but USSR. For some reason I always say USSSR.

[Ocean Breeze 5,127]

I tend to sometimes have a difficult time saying "specifically"

bestie always playfully teases me for it too. lol

[Retro*Derpy 3,196]

I can't think of a particular word, but if I have to read a speech with no prep time I'll fumble a bit.

[Dreambiscuit 10,175]

Architypal. It just doesn't sound right to me. I can say it, but it wants to come out, 'Archetypical'. I don't even know what it means so it's not a big deal, but as long as we're chatting about it, I might as well mention it.

[Clawdeen 15,532]

We have a lot of philly + jersey slang and pronunciations around here. A's tend to replace other vowels here. Especially o's. I say horror as Harrer. Harr-ible.  Still sounds like steal. Across sounds like acrosst. Drawer is pronounced draw-er not droor. Mirrah instead of mirror. I saw this is more like I sawl this. Crayon is crown. You gets an s at the end. Yous. To is Tah. It's not Today(tuh-day)its Tahday. I went tah the store, not to the store. Coffee is Cawfee. Her is Hah. Espresso is Xpresso. Sometimes I won't say the a in around, I'll just say round. I mean around but I say it as round.

So yeah we don't do proper pronunciation in these parts.

[Cash In 22,526]

I'm mostly okay with pronunciations, but because of my Australian accent, I might say them a bit differently.

There was one that I do struggle with. One of the main roads near where I used to live, was known as "Heatherton Road" but sometimes I fumbled the "th" sound and ended up saying "Headerton" instead. :/

[abronymouse 5,910]

bottle  boddle-of-wader

bein' bri'ish an' such

[tomatopotato 89]

I can’t say the abbreviation for cosine properly. I always say “cos” with the “o” pronounced as in “mop” instead of pronouncing the “o” as in “bro”

[Pentium100 2,209]

Any word that has "th" in it. I have no idea how to say that properly. When listening to other people (native English speakers) say those words, I hear many different versions of that sound.

Alsp, probably words that has "w" in them (they you are supposed to actually say). I am much better at writing in English than speaking.

Edited February 15 by Pentium100

[abronymouse 5,910]

1 hour ago, Pentium100 said:

Any word that has "th" in it. I have no idea how to say that properly. When listening to other people (native English speakers) say those words, I hear many different versions of that sound.

Alsp, probably words that has "w" in them (they you are supposed to actually say). I am much better at writing in English than speaking.

the 'th' sound is a nightmare. It's always the sound kids pick up last. Whoever thought that we needed to have a letter that involves vibrating your tongue against your top teeth? what the hay?

it's a anglo-norse thing. It has a cool letter 'thorn' which has dropped out of fashion: þorn (Þ, þ)  

what words do I struggle to pronounce? Irish freakin' names "Siobhan" anyone (pron: Shevaun) Niamh (neve) Cian (Key-un)

Edited February 15 by abronymouse

[Pentium100 2,209]

7 hours ago, abronymouse said:

what words do I struggle to pronounce? Irish freakin' names "Siobhan" anyone (pron: Shevaun) Niamh (neve) Cian (Key-un)

I would have no chance with that. 

English spelling is weird, with letters having multiple different sounds and you just have to know which sound is appropriate for each word (and then we make fun of how "gigawatt" was pronounced in the movie Back to the Future). The name "Pacific Ocean" has three letters "c" and each of them has a different sound.

[abronymouse 5,910]

47 minutes ago, Pentium100 said:

I would have no chance with that. 

English spelling is weird, with letters having multiple different sounds and you just have to know which sound is appropriate for each word (and then we make fun of how "gigawatt" was pronounced in the movie Back to the Future). The name "Pacific Ocean" has three letters "c" and each of them has a different sound.

pacific ocean  oh yeah! 

There are some truly dumb things like

Read and Read are spelled the same but pronounced differently if it's past tense or present. I read (pon: red) a book last night while reading (pon: reeding) up on the subject of how to read (pon: reed)."

And then there's the metal lead (pron: Led), and leader (pron: Leeder) and Meadow (pron: Medow) and the drink Mead (pron: Meed)

point is, not even English people can possibly know what's going on in this friggin language  

Edited February 15 by abronymouse

[Pentium100 2,209]

48 minutes ago, abronymouse said:

Read and Read are spelled the same but pronounced differently if it's past tense or present. I read (pon: red) a book last night while reading (pon: reeding) up on the subject of how to read (pon: reed)."

There are some Lithuanian words where it matters where the accent is, but at least, each letter has only one sound (there is an exception where "i" becomes kind-of silent sometimes, but it is not that difficult). Compared to English where each letter can have many different sounds and some letters are just there because someone thought the words looks better like that (silent letters). 

I remember watching a video about English spelling, it explained some of the things as basically "foreign operators of the first printing press in the UK doing what they though looked better or was easier to them".

Lithuanian language also had weird spelling in the past I have seen photos of the first printed book (1547) - it is not easy to read and not just because of the font. I have also seen photos of a newspaper from 1884 and the spelling there was very similar to Polish (which makes sense), but at least I can read and understand it. But still, one letter (or group of letters) makes one sound.

[Night Sky 172]

On the one hand, I have a vast, sprawling vocabulary, just sayin'. 

Interestingly, my pronunciation of some those words I know is not too good, people have to correct me sometimes. Odd.

Edited February 16 by Night Sky

[abronymouse 5,910]

On 2020-05-25 at 11:59 PM, Le Trotteur Sauvage said:

Through, thought, though, through, and thorough.

I HATE THOSE GUYS !!

 was just gonna ding this myself!

also rough (ruff) and through (threw)

how do you pronounce this name? Clough

*ding ding*

WRONG

Clough is pronounced Cluff, like Rough.  

 

edit

sometimes the forum doesn't tell me when I've posted! so I just posted that 3 times

Edited February 21 by abronymouse

[Espy Vibe 4,460]

Words like "specifically" I end up saying as "pacifically" 

Whenever I try to make sure I say it correctly, I end up saying it more like "sssssspecifically"

I think there's more words I use often where the situation is similar.

[Starlighty 985]

I cannot pronounce any words that start with the letter R.... idk why but it comes out as W's .... 

[Night Sky 172]

Oyster, oysters has always thrown me off for some reason. If I'm not careful it comes out something like "oi! - strs".