To ask what words you can’t say?

[ohheyfreakingout]

... 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!

Ditto to anomaly ....I can sound it out slowly but as soon as I try to say it normally an extra syllabul creeps in.. though I can say anemone no problem

I thought it was my-graine 🤔

I can’t say anathema- it comes out like an-atta-ma. I say absurd with a z instead of an s but apparently this is an acceptable pronunciation

Just one word.

It amuses my OH endlessly with the irony.

It's vocabulary.

Aluminium

Just cannot pronounce it right

Always comes out aluminimumum or some mumbling mess at the end!

Pianist. I think it’s a mental block because it’s very similar to penis.

Lure. I've even googled it got the correct pronunciation and still end up stumbling when i come across it (thankfully only in reading). Is it loor, l'youer, l'yure, l'yore?! Probably none of those but i always seem to say l'youer.

I say my-grain. Most people I know do. Maybe it’s regional?

Hamster.

I mean, I can say it, but it sounds like hampster in my accent which I know some people on here hate!

See also: drawing/drawring

Mary/merry. They both sound the same to me!

I can't say "half" past three. It comes out as haf past

When I call anyone from the car to say 'I'm on my way' it always comes out like 'wimoweh', I just can't seem to say it unless I say it really slooowwwly!!

Emnity. It has never been a problem until recently as I'm playing a legacy board game with friends that has 'emnity' as a game mechanic!

@SpoonBlender, I’m so relieved somebody got that.

I can't say ' why don't you just fuck off !' But I think it a lot

Petalflower yes I did see Graham Norton—it was marvellously embarrassing. And that clip that SpoonBlender posted is equally marvellous.

It absolutely beggars belief that no one on the production team thought to correct poor Benedict.

Chocolate - people always laugh at me as I give it three syllables

Some of these are genuinely hard words to say! No wonder.

Except for “salt”, petal... you’ve got my confused there! How does it come out?!

I can’t say the word “Ireland”. Sounds like I’m doing an impression of a pirate. “Aaaarrrrrrland”

And I’m the wrong side of the salad/salid argument, it never comes out as an ‘a’ sound however hard I try

I am with you on anethasitist, also anti biotics and Worcestershire sauce.

I also struggle with Statistics - not a good one for a Maths teacher.

Chocolate is three syllables.

Chock - co - late

Descant. I want to say descent.

I mangle communal into communual. Every time. Even when Iknow it's coming up and practice it in my head beforehand.

“Dais”
I look it up at least once a year and try to memorise the pronunciation.
Never sticks.

Veterinary. My niece is a vet.