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?

I can't correctly say anaesthetist correctly, ever. Which is embarrassing as one of our best friends is one, so I skirt around what they do for a living!

Sautéed

My accent makes it really difficult to say burglar and, even worse, burglary. I work in fraud analytics for an insurance company, so it comes up fairly often.

Poetry.

I used to do stand-up poetry gigs. After one, a man with a strong West Country accent came up to me and whispered in my ear, 'Oi loike poultry.'

Can't say the word now without hearing 'poultry'.

oh I didn’t see this before my post! Not just me then. How funny!

From the get-go…..it always sounds weird

There is one 4 letter word I cannot say or write and it has rarely been said in my presence. I first saw it in Lady Chatterley’s Lover when I was a teenager. My first husband said it came from an old word meaning valley. I was a teacher and did once hear one of the girls use it. I told her that by using a word meaning an intimate part of a woman’s body as a swear word then she was showing a total lack of respect for her own femininity.
I am 78 now and still can’t say it though other swear words have been known to pass my lips occasionally.

Glad it's not just me! I need to ask a colleague if he enjoyed a gig and I. Just. Can't. Say. It. But 'concert' makes me sound somehow repressed! Why??

Also agree with croissant and gilet.

@Notthecarwashagain Also, this is a bit weird, but I’m really uncomfortable addressing my mum as ‘mum’ and my dad as ‘dad’ Have to wait until they’re looking at me if I want to say anything, or just launch in to it!

• *I'm exactly the same!

Got to agree with 'gilet'. As it happens I dislike the attire as much as I do the word so don't have cause to say it much. The word and the polyester make my teeth itch!

This thread is unexpectedly amusing 😁
simply can’t bring myself to even type mine however .

If you google the definition of a word you can press the speaker and a nice posh lady will say it for you. Might help some of you wondering how certain words are pronounced.
Mine are apocalyptic and legendary. Easily avoidable luckily!

I have NO idea how you are supposed to pronounce balayage...so that's a style I'll never get done at the hairdressers even though I really like it.

Film

Chorizo!

I was ridiculed by friends at uni for saying it the Spanish way like I learnt in school (and heard on holiday) but never feel right saying cho-ree-tzo either. I usually mumble or substitute 'salami'

Wankel rotary engine. Pure filth. "Going forward" can fuck off too-no, unless you have invented time travel, everyone is "going forward" . cunts.

POORLY
Brolly

My x used to use both of these words, eugh.

@Seaweasel 😂

also @SucculentSunshine YES!! All my life I’ve struggled to call people by their shortened names, even if everyone else calls them that. I realise I’m an uptight weirdo for this alone.

An no offence to anyone, but Bex is one of the words. See also Becca. My current problem is that someone at work- in quite a position of authority I may say- calls herself- and everyone calls her- D. Just her initial. Thinking of resigning before I have to address her.

@dropthevipers 😂🤣😂 wtf

Strategy, genuinely struggle to say it, no idea why but my mouth just doesn't like it which means I end up saying it really slowly/deliberately which sounds odd. Can usually avoid it in life but work is trickier

‘Creamy’. It’s a perfectly normal word, but I’ve seen way too many adverts for low fat yoghurt or mousse where some dewy-eyed woman who’s never eaten anything containing fat in her life is saying ‘Low fat?! But it’s soooooo crrrreeeeeeaaaammmmeeeee!!’ They always sound like they’re a) gargling with said cream and b) on the verge of an orgasm at the very thought of said crrrreeeeaameee yoghurt. I just can’t say it anymore without picturing it, or feeling like I need to bring up phlegm.

I'm so glad I’m not the only one who can’t bear to use nicknames! Shortened names, fine. But if your name is John Fox or Mike Webb and you expect me to call you ‘Foxy’ or ‘Webster’, I’m sorry - it ain’t happening.

Just say did you enjoy Mott the hoople/Sugababes (whoever he went to see).

We say anesthesiologist in Canada. Ana-stee-gee-ol-o-gist . Still hard to wrap tongue around.

I have a hard time with antibiotics. Keep saying anti-bee-otics, instead of anti-bye-otics.

Library and February

I know how to say them, but they always seem wrong to me. 🤣