words you can't say

[Mercen-X]

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.

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.

I keep saying shemistry and mersury.

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.

I mispronounced ep-uh-tome.

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.

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

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.