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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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JacquettaW · 01/02/2019 18:14

Swarovski. To be fair, my mum can't say it either. We resort to 'those little stone things that neither of can pronounce''

DontCallMeCharlotte · 01/02/2019 18:16

Digital. Nope.

YouLikeTheBadOnesToo · 01/02/2019 18:16

Statistics.

I put S’s in places they shouldn’t be!

MilkTrayLimeBarrel · 01/02/2019 18:17

Lily and lillies!

Klopptimist · 01/02/2019 18:18

Magnolia. It always comes out as "mangolia".

delboysskinsandblister · 01/02/2019 18:19

strategy.

stumbled a few times at a meeting and in the end said 'plan'. cue sniggers and guffaws. Blush

possumgoddess · 01/02/2019 18:25

Cholesterol

Mother87 · 01/02/2019 18:32

Brewery...

PotOOOOOOOO · 01/02/2019 18:34

Gasped and asked, unless they are at the end of the sentence. I read stories aloud at work and they come up a LOT.

JanuaryJuniper · 01/02/2019 18:36

Vocabulary.....literally impossible for me to say!

NutElla5x · 01/02/2019 18:38

Solemnly. I practiced for hours before my wedding and still got it stupidly wrong on the day Blush

BertyFlanter · 01/02/2019 18:40

Words beginning with A and E that sound alike.
So Alf and Elf sound the same. My friends boy is called Alfie and everyone tells me I call him Elfie. I just cannot hear the difference.
I used to work with two people in a team who had the same surname. One was called Alan and one Ellen. I could never explain who I wanted to speak to 😂

Nodancingshoes · 01/02/2019 18:43

Negligee - not that it comes up much in conversation luckily! Dh can't say woolworths - he was glad when they went bust 😂

abbsisspartacus · 01/02/2019 18:43

Cunt and punch comes out can't and panch no idea why as I'm from the Midlands

PastaCake · 01/02/2019 18:45

I'm another who struggles with Binoculars. also Obstacle.

danni0509 · 01/02/2019 18:46

Anaesthetist always bollocks this up.

missmouse101 · 01/02/2019 18:48

Employee. Is it emPLOYee or employEE?

EstherOnions · 01/02/2019 18:48

Innovative. And for some reason I always feel compelled to use it when speaking in meetings. I will have a complete internal dialogue going on as the time to use the word draws near: "Don't do it, Onions, you know you'll bollocks it up again" but I can't seem to stop myself. A few times I have managed to change the structure of what I'm saying mid-sentence so I can use "innovation" instead, but otherwise I end up going: "Innnnn-nivative - sorry - iiii-no-vative" yet again as my cheeks gently flame. It's not even that tricky a word!

goose1964 · 01/02/2019 18:50

Anemone, in English we had to read a book called the Shrimp and the anemone out loud, it felt like every other word was anemone

CandyCaneLane0 · 01/02/2019 18:54

Sachet

PivotPivotPivottt · 01/02/2019 18:55

Flutternotsoshy I'm sitting trying to say an anomaly and can't get it for the life of me Grin an anononomaly.....

Also came on to say Carl. I've never had to say it unless I'm discussing Shameless so I just call him Carol Blush

Chelsea26 · 01/02/2019 18:55

My mum can’t say Chichester and if we’re bored we get her to try as it’s hilarious. She also can’t say class mass, it always comes out rhyming as either class marss or clas mass

canihaveyourstupidhat · 01/02/2019 18:55

Comfortable.

RoseRuby26 · 01/02/2019 18:56

Misogyny and misogynistic

Chelsea26 · 01/02/2019 18:57

This thread has reminded me of this poem - it’s long and brilliantly clever but you get the gist after a couple of verses www.google.com/amp/s/9gag.com/gag/aqZYMBv/if-you-can-pronounce-correctly-every-word-in-this-poem-you-speak-english-better-than-90-of-the-native-english-speakers/amp