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What one word do you find almost impossible to pronounce/say?

218 replies

Atticustheaardvark · 30/09/2023 00:01

Mine's narcissistic. I pride myself on being reasonably eloquent, but that word has me beat.

Thankfully not a word I find myself needing to utter very often. Just as well, as it takes me about 32 attempts before I stop sounding like Arkwright in Open All Hours.

OP posts:
DoubleNegativePanda · 30/09/2023 00:18

Escitalopram, and I work in primary care and have to say the stupid word almost ever day.

How on earth that word is pronounced "eh-sye-tal-oh-pram" is utterly beyond my comprehension and every time I look at it I don't know how to say it again.

Memba · 30/09/2023 00:18

Exhibition/expedition. They always come out as a mangled combo exhibdition/expebition. Even now I'm not 100% sure which one's which.

DoooooWhoop · 30/09/2023 00:20

Burglary

HeyHoTheWindAndTheRain · 30/09/2023 00:20

Remuneration. Stupid word!

PinkMoscatoLover · 30/09/2023 00:21

I can never say cerebral palsy. I’ve just had to go to Google and copy and paste the spelling of it too. It’s ridiculous!

CallieQ · 30/09/2023 00:24

Antibiotics

PearlClutzsche · 30/09/2023 00:27

Sixth
Twelfth

friedgoldeggs · 30/09/2023 00:27

Flatbread always comes out as flatbled
And millennium comes out as milenimiumum

It's been 31 years, I'm at peace with it now.Grin

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/09/2023 00:28

Eschew

Berlinlover · 30/09/2023 00:28

Film (I’m Irish)

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/09/2023 00:29

Actually sorry having reread the title I don't find it impossible at all. Don't mind me, ok off to sleep

FoghornUnicorn · 30/09/2023 00:29

Anthropomorphised

Owlnoises · 30/09/2023 00:32

Corollary.

Comes out as corrorrollery.

Or collollerly.

DoubleNegativePanda · 30/09/2023 00:35

PearlClutzsche · 30/09/2023 00:27

Sixth
Twelfth

Twelfth is a terrible word. It feels like "twehf" in my mouth.

NetballHoop · 30/09/2023 00:36

Dais.

Is it dice or days? I don't know despite having looked it up several times.

Luckily it's not a word I need to use much.

SD1978 · 30/09/2023 00:38

Ulcerative colitis. And sadly it's a term used frequently, and I also sound like an idiot.....

NoTeaNoShade · 30/09/2023 00:40

Schedule.

I always take a split second to remember how to pronounce it (and I still don't actually know): is it SHED-ule or SKED-ule🤔

Having an American DH doesn't help matters as he pronounces it the second way and then I'm confused as to which is the British way!

SisterAgatha · 30/09/2023 00:41

Foal / fowl.

I never know what’s right. You can tell me but my mouth won’t make the word you just made.

Rummikub · 30/09/2023 00:42

Aesthetician- I stumble over this a lot. I can say aesthetics though.

gulpygulpygators · 30/09/2023 00:44

Catastrophising

wandawaves · 30/09/2023 00:46

Statistics.

WhateverMate · 30/09/2023 00:46

Precedence - my brain wants to say presidents.

Infantilising - my brain wants to say it but my mouth goes haywire and my tongue doesn't know what to do.

WhateverMate · 30/09/2023 00:48

Berlinlover · 30/09/2023 00:28

Film (I’m Irish)

Haha! My Irish mum always said 'Filum'.

I have a cousin called William and she always called him 'Willum' 😂

Pixiedust1234 · 30/09/2023 00:54

Specific.

No matter how hard I try I just can't. It doesn't even come out as pacific Blush

LikeRobbieSays · 30/09/2023 00:54

Specifically

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