Is there a certain word you can't pronounce?
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RunnerGirl
Cathlete
Ruin. My DH makes fun of me and I know it's an easy word but I say it Roooeeen. Just can't say it right.
LD
LD
kathryn
Cathlete
>I can't say aesthitician. I can spell it...
You mean aesthetician? ;-) (just think of the 'h' as silent, which is how most people pronounce it. Trying to fit 's' and 'th' together is way too tough).
I can't think of any specific words off hand that I have trouble with, but I know there are a few. Especially those, (like aesthetician) that have strange consonant combos.
What I do more often than mispronouce is malapropisms. I end up mixing up two words: I think of two words at about the same time, and they end up blended by the time they come out of my mouth.
Also, when I see certain words, even though I KNOW how they are pronounced, I'm tempted to pronounce them the way they look rather than how they are pronounced. "Subtle" is one of them. I really want to pronounce that silent "b" when I see it.
You mean aesthetician? ;-) (just think of the 'h' as silent, which is how most people pronounce it. Trying to fit 's' and 'th' together is way too tough).
I can't think of any specific words off hand that I have trouble with, but I know there are a few. Especially those, (like aesthetician) that have strange consonant combos.
What I do more often than mispronouce is malapropisms. I end up mixing up two words: I think of two words at about the same time, and they end up blended by the time they come out of my mouth.
Also, when I see certain words, even though I KNOW how they are pronounced, I'm tempted to pronounce them the way they look rather than how they are pronounced. "Subtle" is one of them. I really want to pronounce that silent "b" when I see it.
endorphin_junkie
Cathlete
Not one word but I find it very difficult to say 'edited it'...funny, if I have a few drinks in me, it's no problem:+ 
I've noticed lately than many of my kids friend's can't say supposedly, they say 'supposibly'...cracks me up
Take Care
Laurie
I've noticed lately than many of my kids friend's can't say supposedly, they say 'supposibly'...cracks me up
Take Care
Laurie
BeethovenRocks
Cathlete
How do most Americans pronounce 'Iran'? Is it 'eye'-ran OR 'e'-rahn. Also, my Egyptian friend says most people say gyros (g sounds like j) when it's supposed to be 'yee'-ros.
Tracey M
Cathlete
I have difficulty with specific/specifically and structural. I'd die if I had to say this:
The structural engineer specifically edited it so that the ophthalmologist and the Department of Gastroenterology could be closer to the aestheticians. Supposedly the original blueprints were ruined as he ate gyros with an Iranian on Valentines Day.
Sorry I couldn't work in nuclear or malapropisms!
The structural engineer specifically edited it so that the ophthalmologist and the Department of Gastroenterology could be closer to the aestheticians. Supposedly the original blueprints were ruined as he ate gyros with an Iranian on Valentines Day.
Sorry I couldn't work in nuclear or malapropisms!
roses_92123
Cathlete
Naivety...not even sure if that is spelled right actually! Naivete maybe?
Gets me every time! x(
Edited for spelling..lol!
Gets me every time! x(
Edited for spelling..lol!
debbydarestobefit
Cathlete
I have trouble with "drawer" and "sorrow". My sister had to use Rolls Royce in a high school speech and would put a mental "jelly" before it and it'd come out fine. hee hee.
Deb
Deb
A cute poem!
I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead-it's said like bed, not bead.
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose
Just look them up--and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward.
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five!
I take it you already know
of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps.
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead-it's said like bed, not bead.
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose
Just look them up--and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward.
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come I've hardly made a start.
A dreadful language? Man alive,
I'd mastered it when I was five!
roses_92123
Cathlete
>A cute poem!
>
>
>I take it you already know
>of tough and bough and cough and dough.
>Others may stumble, but not you,
>On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
>Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
>To learn of less familiar traps.
>
>Beware of heard, a dreadful word
>That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
>And dead-it's said like bed, not bead.
>For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
>Watch out for meat and great and threat.
>They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
>
>A moth is not a moth in mother,
>Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
>And here is not a match for there,
>Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
>And then there's dose and rose and lose
>Just look them up--and goose and choose.
>And cork and work and card and ward.
>And font and front and word and sword.
>And do and go, then thwart and cart.
>Come, come I've hardly made a start.
>
>A dreadful language? Man alive,
>I'd mastered it when I was five!
>
That's adorable Lorie!
>
>
>I take it you already know
>of tough and bough and cough and dough.
>Others may stumble, but not you,
>On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
>Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
>To learn of less familiar traps.
>
>Beware of heard, a dreadful word
>That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
>And dead-it's said like bed, not bead.
>For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
>Watch out for meat and great and threat.
>They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
>
>A moth is not a moth in mother,
>Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
>And here is not a match for there,
>Nor dear and fear for pear and bear.
>And then there's dose and rose and lose
>Just look them up--and goose and choose.
>And cork and work and card and ward.
>And font and front and word and sword.
>And do and go, then thwart and cart.
>Come, come I've hardly made a start.
>
>A dreadful language? Man alive,
>I'd mastered it when I was five!
>
That's adorable Lorie!
FitGirl-ATX
Cathlete
LauraMax,
This is definitely a fun post! I have a hard time pronouncing "entrepreneur" and "entrepreneurial". Real tongue tiers for me
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This is definitely a fun post! I have a hard time pronouncing "entrepreneur" and "entrepreneurial". Real tongue tiers for me
Your friend in fitness,
FitGirl-ATX
My Blog: http://fitgirlatx.blogspot.com/index.html
Picture Trail URL: http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?username=fitgirl-atx
"I am only competing with the me I have yet to be..."
dreamyjeanie
Cathlete
I can't say Philadelphia. I always say it like Philadelthia. My dd corects me every time.
Jean
Jean
heeeee! I have trouble with that word too! I also get tied up when I try to say "preferred provider" - somehow, for whatever reason, when I say it, I end up say "paferred provider"...ARRRGGH! This could easily spill into a discussion about what words other people say wrong that annoys us...heeeeee:7