words you can't say

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Originally Posted by Shorty

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Originally Posted by Shauna

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Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs

For the love of God, I can't say "rural."

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Quite.

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This, and love for Shauna :jess:

I just say rrrl. It's not even a word.

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I'm assuming she linked Rural Juror, I can't watch it on my phone. Oh yeah, I'm so Liz Lemon with that word. It sort of comes out "rur-er" or really just an extended rrrrrrr sound. And seeing as I live in Missouri, the would rural comes up much more than you'd think.

I don't have trouble pronouncing any words..

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Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs

There's a really simple solution to this. Instead of trying to sound smart and ending up sounding like a tit, just say "fire round" or "grenade." :p

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Ahh but the item is called an Incendiary Round or an Incendiary Grenade when they do so. And I'll say "fire rounds" or "fire bombs" and they'll be all "a what?! Steve! There are no fire rounds what are they called?" until I say it. Bastards but I loves them.

ALL OF THEM

Seriously, it's quite sad. Maybe that's why I'm not much of a talker :shobon:

I can't think of any words I struggle to say. I had a speech impediment when I was younger (and a horrible stutter) so occasionally I have problems getting out certain sounds, but for the most part I can say everything properly without trouble.

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Originally Posted by Iceglow

1) Incendiary

2) Washing-up-liquid. How the hell do I say this wrong every time? I say Fairy-up-liquid. Yes Fairy. Have done this since I was a child.

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I say either N-send-D-airy, or nSend-jury. Both sound all right to me.

The fairy thing is probably some preprogrammed psyche trigger. Somebody's been messing with your head.

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Originally Posted by Mirage

I keep saying shemistry and mersury.

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Probably blameless. Why would we have a letter with a dual function? Why does this secondy K double as a second S? Languages are stupid.

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Originally Posted by Futan

I mispronounced ep-uh-tome.

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DIDO. Of course, I always thought epitome was an Epic Tome as I had heard the word tome to describe a book long before I saw the word epitome used.

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Originally Posted by Tifa's Boobs

For the love of God, I can't say "rural."

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As far as I can recall, everyone I've ever heard use this word has said "Rrrrl." Sounds like a growling dog to me. I say "rue-rawl."

I've always been an unaplogetic grammar-nazi and spelling-tyrant as well as a dedicated dictionaryist (I can make up words when I want to)

Chances are that if it isn't a popular term in English, I can't pronounce it. My grandma speaks Tagalog. After watching Wayne's World, I tried to learn Cantonese so I could impress some pretty Chinese girl (I hadn't realized Mandarin was a more widespread dailect), watching anime inspired me to study Japanese (which is easier to pronounce but no simpler to remember), my dad has been studying German as its in his blood. My French cousin has inspired me to learn his language. Words in German and French are usually easy to pronounce but not so much when you're reading them.

I can't pronounce words represented by foreign letters.

"No" :jokey:

None I'm aware of, but that's because when I learn I've got it wrong I'm able to correct myself. The problem is learning I've got it wrong, because hoo boy does my brain ingrain things deep when it wants to. For instance I not only pronounced "galvanize" as "glavanize" for years and years, I spelled it that way, and when I read it, I read it as "glavanize".

e; Pike can't pronounce "Spokane" fyi

e2; I also can't pronounce "Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli"

My accent smurfs me over a lot. I just slur words like I'm drunk and it's goddamn annoying.

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Originally Posted by Araciel

"No" :jokey:

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"Yes"

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Originally Posted by I'm my own MILF

e2; I also can't pronounce "Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli"

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That one also gets me every time

I can and do pronounce melenkurion

As a true video game nerd, I learned how to read english before I learned how to speak it.

As a direct result of that, when we first started learning English, I would pronounce silent letters, like for instance the k in "know" and the w in "sword." And I thought the "ch" in "character" was pronounced like the "ch" in "charades."

I refused to acknowledge the correct pronounciations for several years.

I'm sure there are words I don't pronounce right to this date, but as I'm obviously not aware of them, I can't tell you what words they are. That's probably why I'm pronouncing them wrong in the first place.

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Originally Posted by Levian

As a direct result of that, when we first started learning English, I would pronounce silent letters, like for instance the k in "know" and the w in "sword." And I thought the "ch" in "character" was pronounced like the "ch" in "charades."

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I used to think sword was pronounced like word with an s in front, back when I played Broken Swehrd 2 in younger days.

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Originally Posted by Citizen Bleys

I can and do pronounce melenkurion

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Who wouldn't be able to pronounce mair-en-kewl-ian?

I can't pronounce Cameron sometimes. I never considered it could be pronounced Kam-uh-rawn...