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To ask what words you can’t say?

380 replies

ohheyfreakingout · 01/02/2019 15:52

... even when they’re written in front of you

I can never seem to say anaesthetise.

My friend can’t say kettle properly and my brother has trouble with vinegar!

OP posts:
SaltedIceCream · 02/02/2019 13:01

specific

MillytantForceit · 02/02/2019 13:03

Synthetic Synaesthesia: Synaesthesynthesis.

No one can say that.

Sunbeam18 · 02/02/2019 13:04

Mirror

GinZing · 02/02/2019 13:04

Communal.

Is it com-YOU-nal or COM-unal?

Aghh

Sunbeam18 · 02/02/2019 13:09

Yeah, Carl is impossible with a Scottish accent. You have to fake an English accent or say Carole.
It's also impossible to say Portadown or Newtonards without affecting a NI accent!

McT123 · 02/02/2019 13:12

I an 52 and still sometimes say parcark instead of carpark

nevermindthebollox · 02/02/2019 13:12

Multiplication comes out as multiciplation

GinZing · 02/02/2019 13:19

Quinoa
Mischievous

DarlingNikita · 02/02/2019 13:56

Academician. I don't know where you put the emphasis(-es).

And, not pronunciation as such, but I sometimes get 'mainly' and 'mostly' mixed up and say 'maistly'. Then I try to correct myself and say 'moanly'. Confused The worst thing is that after one iteration of each I get stuck in a loop and keep repeating them, feeling more and more stupid, until whoever I'm talking to steps in and says one correctly for me and I can move on Grin

camperjam · 02/02/2019 14:11

I can't say compartmentalise. It comes out compent martialise

BagofTeeth · 02/02/2019 14:18

I'm Scottish and have no trouble saying Carl as one syllable. Charles ends up as char-ils though. Library and February cause me problems with the double Rs though.

TillyMint81 · 02/02/2019 15:41

@CreepyPasta my daughter used to say tercificate

TillyMint81 · 02/02/2019 15:44

I know someone who pronounces it Feb-Ruary

justtakingabath · 02/02/2019 15:58

tilly I know someone who pronounces wednesday as spelled, "wed-nes-day' for some reason I find it very annoying!

SummerStrong · 02/02/2019 16:03

Ibuprofen

AzraiL · 02/02/2019 16:05

Desicion.
Always comes out 'deshishion'.

BelfastSmile · 02/02/2019 16:12

I can't say "Howard" in my Northern Irish accent. I hate being introduced to a Howard as I'm then very self-conscious in case I start a sentence in a way that means I have to use his name.

I agree with the earlier poster who said you can't say "Newtownards" in any accent other than NI.

JGK0 · 02/02/2019 16:18

I live in North America where a significant proportion of the population seem to have an aversion to the word "ask".

Tether than ask for something they get all violent and want to " axe" you. 😐

scatcat01 · 02/02/2019 16:21

Quantitative. Unfortunate, since I teach statistics 🤣🤣

Madonnaslonglostbeautyspot · 02/02/2019 16:24

Ohio
It always comes out in a way that makes me sound like one of the seven dwarfs (dwarves?) going to work.
Ho-hi-ho

allnewredfairy · 02/02/2019 16:25

domino
apostolic

willowmelangell · 02/02/2019 16:30

Ignominiously.

Tookawrongturnsomewhere · 02/02/2019 17:13

Linkedin

Stormypaige · 02/02/2019 17:31

Shreddies. I say ‘shredgies’

caroline161 · 02/02/2019 17:42

Collaboratively

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