Parrothead Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 cavalry (I almost always say Calvary by mistake)pedagogy (I learned it in Russian and German first, where both "g's" are hard. DH laughs because he can see me thinking through the word before I say it.) This would be one of the words I write or read but never say. In my head is pronounced with two hard g's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Unless I concentrate quite hard 'car park' always comes out as 'par cark'. I've suffered from this peculiarity since I was a child, and it's never got any better; every time I say it I have to really focus on saying it correctly. My brain also often turns 'banana' into 'umbrella' and vice versa. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I used to have an issue with cinnamon. I finally was able to say it correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamajudy Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Someone beat me too it, but I always have trouble with cavalry...it always comes out Calvary (must be my Christian heritage). Another tongue-twister for me is the word wasps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Another set of words I consistently have trouble with are idea and ideal. My brain would say "idea" but my mouth would say "ideal". :001_huh: 'Ideal' is the standard pronunciation for 'idea'. The town was originally called 'Brigstowe' but became Bristol. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myeightkiddies Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Wash Washington Washing Machine It comes out Warsh, Warshington, and Warshing Machine. Well, it's more like W-are-sh or Wah -R -Sh. When I try to say it correctly it sounds as if I am a non-English speaking person trying to say it. It's forced. :glare: The same is true with tire. Yeah. Tire. Naturally I say ( :eek: ) Tar. I have to think it out in my say and say it slowly to get it to sound as it should - tie - err. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I once dated a boy who pronounce it 'urn'. On the phone: Me: Whatcha doing? Him: I'm urning. Me: What? Him: I'm urning again. My mom is angry about my grades so she's making me urn the laundry as punishment. Me: ??? I have no idea what you are talking about. Him: You know, urn, to get the wrinkles out. Me: ...um...oh! You mean IRON! You are IRONING the clothes. Okay. Him: Ha ha! Why are you saying EYE-RON? Ha ha! That boy did a lot of URNING for his mother that year. Ha ha! Well, I'd say both of you pronounce it wrong. :lol: I pronounce it EYE-URN, and I don't think I've ever heard any other pronunciation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaxmum Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Desensitisation That word is why horses go through sensitivity training, when we are trying to desensitize them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Well, I'd say both of you pronounce it wrong. :lol: I pronounce it EYE-URN, and I don't think I've ever heard any other pronunciation. EYE-uhn. No 'r' in it at all. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddykate Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Unless I concentrate quite hard 'car park' always comes out as 'par cark'. I've suffered from this peculiarity since I was a child, and it's never got any better; every time I say it I have to really focus on saying it correctly. :lol::lol: That is really funny! I suffer from this, as well, but my words are ticks and fleas. I ALWAYS say flicks and teas and don't realize that I said it wrong until everyone around me starts laughing. Cookies and Milk is another bad one for me....it is ALWAYS cook and milkies. My dh and kiddos think it is hilarious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang!Zoom! Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 sorry comes out: sur-ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Tara~ Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Fun thread! I cannot say Worcestershire sauce either. I also cannot distinguish between Don and Dawn. (please help!) Tutorial used to trip me up pretty badly too, but I think I have a handle on it now. Rural is also tricky for me. I can't think of anything else not already mentioned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theYoungerMrsWarde Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 In highschool I couldn't hear the difference between "irreverent" and "irrelevant." Dh (boyfriend at the time) loved teasing me about it. I'm not sure which one I wasn't saying, but I couldn't say one of them. He still brings it up sometimes :001_rolleyes: 7 years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I can occasionally have difficulty saying Simpson's. Usually I say it properly and without difficulty, at other times there is a noticeable glitch. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWOB Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Many words with -oil. Oil sounds like "all", boil sounds like "ball". However, toil and coil come out the "right" way. It took me years to properly pronounce "short". It always came out as "shart". Quarter was another one. R-controlled vowels throw me. Tuesday. I still have to make an effort to pronounce this correctly. My dad always said "Chews-day". Of course, he couldn't pronounce a lot of things since is first language was French. Pianist and accompanist. I take out a syllable in "pianist" (which makes it sound a little dirty) and add a syllable to "accompanist". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SJ. Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Groin. Dh teases me but I tease him back because he says MAY-zhure (measure). :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeaganS Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Cumulative. I almost always say it Ca-mule-a-tive. I have to think and say it slowly in order to say it correctly. That and I used to be in speech therapy for my "r's" If I get nervous or am talking too fast I'll sometimes revert back and say something dumb like Wataw instead of water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 It took me over a decade to remember that the tool I like my chiropractor to use is called an activator. Okay, it's not a pronunciation problem, but my problem involves using the wrong noun (since I was 20 or even younger.) There are one or two words I have trouble with, but they come up so seldom I can't even remember them right now. They're probably nouns! Of course, my dc are all over me over a few words I just can't/won't say the local way because they sound so uneducated to me. I do say them with an American accent, just not the local one. There are also a few words where I say it the Canadian way but with an American accent. I change accents at the border, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbookbuzz Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 For me, it's "particularly". That's a tough one! My daughter says pacific, instead of specific. As for IRON: I say "EYE-urn" Kids say "EYE-run" And my son pronounces "binoculars" as " BYE-nock-you-lers" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valkett Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 similarly Same here. I have to say "similar', take a breath and add "ly":glare: Drives me nuts! I'm also from southern Maryland, so tend to add an "r" to wash. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thescrappyhomeschooler Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I can't say crème de menthe in an English/American accent. I always pronounce it in the French way and can't even repeat after someone tries to help me say it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debbie in OR Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Yew Nork (New York) :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mama2cntrykids Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I can't think of anything personally, but my dh can't say Joel. It comes out Joe lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I've been reading novels by C J Sansome. Now I'm singing in Handel's Samson and I can't say it right. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 OK ... you don't say 'car park' :tongue_smilie:. I can't remember what you Americans say - it's where you leave your car if you go shopping, or to the cinema, or whatever. Is it what you call a 'parking lot'? Does anyone have an American English-British English Dictionary? :D Sorry. Just say "parking lot" and let them all think you are American. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 If there is supposed to be a discernible difference between Newark and New York, I can't get it right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aurelia Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Unless I concentrate, I tend to drop the D from sandwich. I also can't remember the bonfire night rhyme correctly: "Remember, remember the 5th of November The gunpowder treason and plot..." I always try to substitute "vampire" for "gunpowder". I think reading the Twilight series around the same time I saw V for Vendetta permanently scarred my brain. Ariel only JUST (like in the last month) learned to say "hamburger" correctly, and she has to think hard for it to come out right. Before, it was usually "hambooger". We have a restaurant called Whataburger here and until recently she always called it "waterbooger". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liz CA Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 WashWashington Washing Machine It comes out Warsh, Warshington, and Warshing Machine. Well, it's more like W-are-sh or Wah -R -Sh. When I try to say it correctly it sounds as if I am a non-English speaking person trying to say it. It's forced. :glare: My MIL says "warsh" and "warsher." I always thought it was a regional thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 similarly- am I even spelling it right? I really dislike that word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritaserum Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I have trouble with words that end in "sts" or "sps" like rests or gasps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmilyinND Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 particularly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SweetMissMagnolia Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Worcestershire (sauce) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 similarly- am I even spelling it right? I really dislike that word. Me too. My ds thinks it is hilarious that I can't say that word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeschoolmomtutu Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 (edited) I have one I CAN say, but always (mentally) second guess myself on ...camembert. Relatively innocuous word, right? Yet I end up with the same mental discussion....bear, bay, burr....not bert...right?? ha! It's a mental loop...who's on first?...and though I DO know the answer, sadly can't get away from the question :glare: ...I'll just call it brie ;) Edited November 18, 2011 by homeschoolmomtutu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunD Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I married a Greg, and to her dying day, my grandma called him Craig :001_smile: It was a family joke. She just got some words messed up in her head and they never straightened out. I have a cousin-in-law Kirk, and a neighbor Curt. I always have to think really hard before I address them and I end up psyching myself out, doubting which is which. I end up splitting the difference and calling them both Curd. :lol: Hopefully they shrug and figure I have a funny accent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarawatsonim Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 In my college days I once asked the bartender if "the chippers were still peach". This was after saying it over and over in my head as I was walking up to the bar so I would say it right. I meant to ask if "the pitchers were still cheap". Needless to say, he didn't serve me anymore alcohol. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich with Kids Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Statistics...I have to really think about it before I say it. Measure...I say May-sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RegGuheert Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Supraventricular tachycardia. And I suffer from it.Two can play at this: Micturition syncope. And I suffer from this. Sometimes. I cannot pronounce DS21's girlfriend's first name for the life of me: Ariana. :tongue_smilie: But I can pronounce something that a former president cannot: nuclear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BellaMama Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Liszt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenangelcat Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Apocalyptic. I can't type it either. It came up in a transcript I was doing the other day, and I need to be able to type the consonants in order. I couldn't do it. I substituted something else (can't remember what!). That's my problem word as well. Whenever I say it, it comes out with a P where the first c is and then just garbles up from there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsbaby Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Mountain....it comes out like meowntin. The kids think it's hilarious:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrspoch Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Fun thread! I cannot say Worcestershire sauce either. I also cannot distinguish between Don and Dawn. (please help!) Tutorial used to trip me up pretty badly too, but I think I have a handle on it now. Rural is also tricky for me. I can't think of anything else not already mentioned. Worcestershire sauce is of the devil ... well, the word not the sauce. lol My husband tells me that I always pronounce Don incorrectly -- he says I'm saying Dawn. I had no idea that /o/ and /aw/ didn't sound the same... :001_huh: I'm also one who can't say "cavalry" but instead say "Calvary." lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I didn't learn to say 'peculiar' properly until I was in my late teens and I can't pronounce 'autumnal' and have it sound like it deserves to be a word. I'm pretty sure I pronounce it properly, it just sounds made up instead of a real word. Is there really any situation where one can't get away with just saying "autumn?" conscience and peculiarly I have no idea why I struggle to get these words out properly. :svengo: Just when I thought I had beaten my nemesis! I can only say 'peculiarly' if I say it slowly. :001_huh: Then I sound peculiar. :glare: Why is roo-r'l ('=shwa) hard to say? You guys pronounce 'rural' some other way? And out of curiosity, how are you lot trying to pronounce 'Worcestershire?' I'm starting to think I'm from the last family on the planet pronouncing 'forehead' as 'forrid.' What a funny thread! Rosie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mytwomonkeys Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 wow. peculiarly is really hard!! i'm trying to say it and sound like a ding-dong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyB Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Aurora. I had to have my husband tell the kids the proper name of the Northern Lights. "Aren't they pretty? Go ask your father what they're called!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Statistics...I have to really think about it before I say it. Well, at the college I went to we all called it Sadistics, so you're probably ok. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annabel Lee Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 (edited) Rosie, I grew up in a home where everyone pronounced it War-ster-shire. Now I keep wondering if it's supposed to be "War-chester-shire". Probably neither. Progymnasmata and pedagogy - I should have looked up the pronunciation before trying to say them aloud to others. My brother pronounces "Crayon" as "crown" and it drives me nuts! Edited November 19, 2011 by Annabel Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleWMN Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 rural. I hate that word. :tongue_smilie: That's mine too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Two can play at this: Micturition syncope. And I suffer from this. Sometimes. I cannot pronounce DS21's girlfriend's first name for the life of me: Ariana. :tongue_smilie: But I can pronounce something that a former president cannot: nuclear. You pass out when you pee? :svengo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy in Australia Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Up until I was about 12, I was convinced that the word "reluctant" was actually "recluant" :001_huh:. That's how I read it in my head (I was in France till that age and obviously had never pronounced it aloud) I even had a big fight with my mother because I was insisting it was even spelled "recluant :D We say "Woostersheer". On another note, can someone tell if Minnesotans actually do have an accent, or is this just propaganda:) ? (I just watched the movie "New in Town") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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