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Words you find difficult to pronounce??

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  • 08-11-2012 3:32pm
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    lovebug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭


    Sometimes you come across one of those words that just catches you unannounced and you just can't pronounce it... until someone of course helps you.

    Some examples of the words I find difficult to pronounce; Paralysis for example!

    What are yours?


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    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Negligible.


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    #3
    Hope O_o
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭Hope O_o


    :D a Pronounciation Prowess Poem

    I have difficulties with:
    February
    Potable
    Antarctic
    Sherbet
    Mauve
    Mayonnaise
    Prerogative
    Moot vs Mute
    and:
    Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarr-hounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk :)


    ....


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    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Oh I have many, I think I talk too fast or something!

    Main one I can think of now is Perscription! I can never get it right :p


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    Turtwig
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Facetious. That one actually drives me nut, because I use it in writing a lot but any time I want to use it in real-life and the pressure's on I usually make a hash of it.:(


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    Princess Zelda
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭Princess Zelda


    I always mess up animation.

    Also the name Liam Neeson if I don't say it slowly. Always spoonerises itself and goes into Neal Leeson.


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    Sar_Bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭Sar_Bear


    Physics :o


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    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users Posts: 17,508 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Saturday (sah-urday) :confused:


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    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Isthmus.


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    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Statistics.


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    #11
    Skerries
    Registered Users Posts: 12,317 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Princess Peach wrote: »
    Oh I have many, I think I talk too fast or something!

    Main one I can think of now is Perscription! I can never get it right :p

    or spell it right ;)

    oh wait, thats the joke :rolleyes:
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    greentea is just wrong
    Registered Users Posts: 237 ✭✭greentea is just wrong


    Hospital , every bloody time


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    #13
    celtic-chick
    Registered Users Posts: 14,978 ✭✭✭✭celtic-chick


    sausages,for some reason I just can't pronounce it :(


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    neemish
    Registered Users Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭neemish


    anonymity...if that's how you spell it!

    Also, anaesthetist.

    Phew! Even typing them is hard


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Dyslexic. I end up saying dexlexlex...can't even THINK it!


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I'm usually fine with pronunciations so long as I don't think about it.

    There's an ad on the radio about antibiotics, and every time it comes on, the pronounciation sounds weird. But then I try to say it to myself and I stumble over it or sound really awkward.


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    Geo10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭Geo10


    Specificity
    Always gets me tongue-tied!


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    gerrybbadd
    Registered Users Posts: 10,301 ✭✭✭✭gerrybbadd


    Suspicious... A dose of stuttering and frustration follows after attempting to say it


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    #19
    Ehrmantraut
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭Ehrmantraut


    I can't pronounce "boobs" without giggling. Teehee.

    I also have difficulty with the words "rectangular," "teapot," "negligible" and "I was wrong".


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    Pat Mustard
    Registered Users Posts: 9,554 ✭✭✭Pat Mustard


    Recognisances.

    It's a tongue twister.


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    #21
    janja
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭janja


    Rataoth, just cant get it first time


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    Gee_G
    Registered Users Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Gee_G


    I CAN NOT say worcestershire,as in the sauce! (Hope that's the right spelling :))


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    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Gee_G wrote: »
    I CAN NOT say worcestershire,as in the sauce! (Hope that's the right spelling :))

    As far as I know, 'Worcestershire' is never pronounced as it is written. I believe the correct pronunciation sounds more like 'Wooster' which thankfully is easier. I suppose its similar to Arkansas being pronounced 'Arkansaw', or Colonel being pronounced as 'Curnel'. English must seem strange to people learning it as their second language.


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    [Deleted User]
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    I will usually say revelation when I mean relevation or vice versa, making myself look even more stupid than usual :)


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    #25
    TommieBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,273 ✭✭✭✭TommieBoy


    Endive lettuce (awn-deeev or enn-dive, I've not a clue).
    Hierarchy and Mischievous give me spelling and pronunciation probs.


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    #26
    grrrrrrrrr
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭grrrrrrrrr


    A shamefully simple one but i can never say Brewery, even now i cant think is it pronounced brur_y or bew-ry or something else


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    #27
    Whispered
    Registered Users Posts: 14,772 ✭✭✭✭Whispered


    Vocabulary usually comes out like vocabloorarly :(


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    leahyl
    Registered Users Posts: 14,246 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Whispered wrote: »
    Vocabulary usually comes out like vocabloorarly :(

    Just say vocab :pac:


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    #29
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,237 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Hope O_o wrote: »
    I have difficulties with:

    Sherbet
    You're not the only one.....



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    Mam of 4
    Registered Users Posts: 21,837 ✭✭✭✭Mam of 4


    Literally.

    Comes out slowly as lit-er-al-ly.

    Am so annoyed that I stumble on that word :(


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    earlytobed
    Registered Users Posts: 452 ✭✭earlytobed


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    As far as I know, 'Worcestershire' is never pronounced as it is written. I believe the correct pronunciation sounds more like 'Wooster' which thankfully is easier. I suppose its similar to Arkansas being pronounced 'Arkansaw', or Colonel being pronounced as 'Curnel'. English must seem strange to people learning it as their second language.

    "Kitchen Hero" Donal Skehan had a go at pronouncing it as its written the other night. Also funny pronuciation of Paprika!


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