Is there a certain word you can't pronounce?

I cannot say the word "jaguar". I pronounce it jaaag-wire. I guess that is the wrong way to say it! My DH always tells me I pronounce it wrong!
 
tneah - just think "jagwar". Or, if you're British or want to sound British, then "jag-you-ar" ;)

Piece o'cake.

I have trouble with metastasized (I'm not even sure that's how you spell it) and unfortunately have had to use it a lot.

My dad always used to say "exhilirator" instead of "accelerator".]

Whenever I see the words hyperbole and epitome and awry in print, I mispronounce them in my head, but I don't when I'm speaking. Weird.
 
My nemesis word is Wor...hold on I can't even spell the d@mn thing, let me get the bottle...

Okay, "W-o-r-c-e-s-t-e-r-s-h-i-r-e" sauce! There, that's the one that always gives me problems!
 
My husband thinks I say the word "Toyota" funny. I guess it's a good thing I drive a Mazda.

I also can't say oil, boil, toil, etc. (any oi word). For that matter I have trouble with words that have io. Oil comes out sounding like awl and biology comes out like bahlogy. I guess this comes from growing up in North Texas, though most of the time people tell me I don't sound like I'm from Texas.

And my pronunciation and vocab are totally messed up from 2 years in the Netherlands and 2 years in England. I have to turn to my husband sometimes and ask him "is that how we pronounce it in the U.S.?" or else he laughs and says I am saying a British phrase. It's just after 4 years of listening to Dutch or British speakers and TV, I was bound to pick up certain things and they're hard to shake.

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I have a friend that always leaves out the "k" in breakfast so it sounds like breffast. I cringe every time. :eek:

Also lots of people mispronounce cummerbund and say cumberbund, and nuptials gets pronounced nuptuals. Oh my goodness, don't get me started. Maybe I have ishoes. **Diet** :p

Bam
 
The two I struggle with have already been mentioned - but I cannot say "specifically" or "specific" without really having to slow down and think about it.

The "preferred provider" gets me every time as well...
 
Thanks Shelley, having you actually write the word the way it needs to be pronounced made perfect sense! I now know how to say "jagwar" . I think I like your British version best, it will come in handy when I am on "holiday" with the Queen!;-)
 
>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!

Man, that is a scream!!!

This topic reminds me of my late mother. Sometimes when we'd argue hard and she was winning I'd say "Hey Mom, QUICK, say anesthesiology!" and she'd take the bait every time: "Aneth... ANETH..." She'd start off with a look of constipated determination (I CAN do this), then confusion (Wait, that's not it), and finally she'd look so mad, finally spitting out "Oh sh*t!". She died three years ago and those hilarious little moments still bring tears of mirth to my eyes.
 
Plantar fascitis - I can't get the second part of it.....and worse, even though it hasn't been medically diagnosed.....I think I have it. I definitely have to slow down and think about it before I try to blurt it out. Hmmmmm....maybe I should do that with all my words??:eek: That might just keep me out of trouble.......no fun in that.:p :7

Angie
 
>Whenever I try to say "diet" it always comes out "dammit".
>It's weird.

I laughed so hard when I read this that I almost peed my pants:7

I can't think of any particular word that I have trouble pronouncing. The problem I have lately is losing my train of thought and forgetting what I want to say midway through a sentence, or I'll become tongue tied, or use the wrong word. I blame menopause :p
 
My husband and my mom both say library wrong. They say libary and leave out that "r" in there. I don't know why but it annoys me. Also, my mom has a hard time saying aluminum and iron. She says i-run instead.
 
English is my third language, so there are many words that just sound funy coming out of my mouth. But there is no way i can ever say: theater or consultant :p
 
LOL I had no idea we were all so tongue tied! :+

Amy, I have that problem with worces.....worcester....aw he!!, you know what I mean. :p
 
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