Are there any words you feel really awkward/self conscious saying?!

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For me it's 'gig'. I can't say it out loud without wanting to cringe/wince/apologise. It makes me feel really fraudulent!

Am I the only one? Does anyone else have words they just can't use?

Gesture. I have never knowingly said it, but I read a lot and I struggle to even read it as I find it really hard to pronounce, bizarrely.

Agree with Dew and Pain au chocolate too!

I actually really struggle with Dew and Dune - was hard when I went to see the film and wanted to talk about it but didn’t want to refer to the title 😂

I thought that I could say phenomenon until I read this thread and now I just can’t say it!

Literally

i only use when absolutely necessary and with its proper meaning but makes me feel all cringy due to its recent overuse.

Vulva
Robust
Flange

Poorly.

I see it a lot on here, and I know it's a normal enough word in some parts, but I cringe when I see it and I can't make myself say it.

It's one of then, wrf?

Hyperbole.

Also I hate the word clubbing?! 🤦‍♀️

CafEEEEE (caffey) rather than cafe (CAFF). Neither sounds right. One sounds too posh and strangulated and the other one doesn't sound natural either!

I can't say jewellery, February, brewery etc and had to once when reading out loud in y7. I just got stuck saying ererererer while everybody laughed.

I'm from Derbyshire originally and when we moved to East Anglia when I was little, my parents worked hard to correct my vowels so I'd fit in. I still can't quite say words like butcher. I just don't know how.

penchant. Never know whether to go for a French-sounding version on not

lingerie

Ah yes croissant is a bad one.
For me though it's saying necessarily. Too many syllables.

Catastrophic and preposterous, can never get it right first time.

I absolutely loathe poorly. 🤮

Phenomenon or phenomenal

Only way I can say them correctly is if I speak-sing each word to the tune of the muppets mah-na mah-na. Which is not going to happen in public!

Lingerie.

I lived in France for a year, so can only say it the French way. I refuse to say LONNN-juh-RAAAAAY the way most Brits do.

Catastrophising. Not sure I have even spelled it correctly but when I try to say it I seem to add even more syllables so it's more like catastrophosising. Is it even a word?

Also croissant.
I just buy them from the supermarket so I never have to say the word.

Clinch

I hate it. And my line manager in work always talks about 'clinching sales'... it literally makes me Clinch 😬

Is that the one that's said HiPerBleee?

What are the two ways? Poll as in pole dancing and poll as in Polly?

@tellittotherubberduck - thanks!

HAHAHA

Mine is lesbian, which is weird because I am one, I'm completely happy and out to everybody and will say I'm gay with no issue. I can only assume it's a deep rooted connection to the time when it was a guilty secret 🤷🏿‍♀️
Strange though.