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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!

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OutPinked · 02/02/2019 18:04

I have a first in English lit and teach it for a living but I still struggle to pronounce ‘sixth’. I can’t help it, I end up saying sickf.

leamaria · 02/02/2019 18:08

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showmewhatyougot · 02/02/2019 18:24

Comedian

AdorableMisfit · 02/02/2019 18:40

Stethoscope

Kismetjayn · 02/02/2019 20:16

I've figured it out! C and tion words! They add a t somehow!

Exclamation = etslamation (the hardest)
Prescription = prestription
Multiplication = multiplitation!

No idea why but least I've found the pattern now.

Wedgiecar58 · 02/02/2019 21:29

“Anomaly”

I have to concentrate really hard and say it slow, most of the time it still comes out wrong!

Munchkingoat · 02/02/2019 21:39

Prescription

SabineUndine · 02/02/2019 21:40

I once got rather pissed when I was staying with friends I didn't know THAT well and was trying to describe Physalis (orange berries) to them and it came out as 'Syphilis' and I couldn't get it right no matter how I tried!

Gigglebrain · 02/02/2019 21:41

Prosthesis

AiryFairy1 · 02/02/2019 21:41

Asked ... I say ast
Gasped .. gast 🙄

abeautifulmess1234 · 02/02/2019 21:46

Pint. I always say point. I bought a point of milk lol

Pinklittle · 02/02/2019 21:46

Jeremy!!!

Scienceforthewin · 02/02/2019 21:47

Meteorologist

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 02/02/2019 22:00

I have to use the word "spherulite" at work.

Sphere is fine, spherule is usually ok to. Then I get something that sounds like "fairy lights" with an s at the beginning!

greenelephantscarf · 02/02/2019 22:02

clothes
misogyny

iAMequal · 02/02/2019 22:06

I can't think of anything I struggle to pronounce but it makes my blood boil when people say "liberry" instead of library. Grrrrr.

My mother in law can't say "buckle" it always comes out as buttle. Weirdly she can't say bottle and that comes out as bockle. Both make me feel irrationally cross!

I do get anemone confused sometimes and want to say anenome.

Lucked · 02/02/2019 22:08

Archipelago

I am reading how to train your dragon to DS and replace it with islands.

Omasa · 02/02/2019 22:09

Entrepreneur

Iownabigvase · 02/02/2019 22:18

Specifically

Toys (I always say it in a weird way that never sounds right in my head.. sort of sounds like poi but with a T)

lalaloopyhead · 02/02/2019 22:21

Ombudsman...I can say it if I read it from written but breaking it down into bits, but if I just try to say it...nope, always come out wrong.

I know a woman that always says pacific instead of specific.

EllenJanesthickerknickers · 02/02/2019 22:22

I’m a school physics technician and we have some apparatus called a Kunst tube. I now call it the rude tube.

iAMequal my mum used to say buttle for buckle and bockle for bottle, too. Weird.

My dad used to rhyme donkey with monkey.

discusstin · 02/02/2019 22:27

legislature

greenelephantscarf · 02/02/2019 22:28

solemnly

Hippopotas · 02/02/2019 22:30

Particularly
Communicative

SciFiScream · 02/02/2019 22:44

I can't say confiscated or any word in that range confiscating, confiscation.

Consfication
Consficated
Consificating