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What's your word?
  • PurpleFlowersPurpleFlowers
    Posts: 5,629Member
    What word(s) do you have trouble pronouncing? For some reason, I cant say Venezuela the correct way. I also have a hard time saying fish sticks, it always comes out like fiss ticks.
    Next...
    Stay away from my chocolate and nobody gets hurt!

    I think I like who I am becoming...
  • momofdbbmomofdbb
    Posts: 9,074Member
    Idea I can NEVER SAY THAT WORD I always say idear ! I can not say it without adding a R to the end so it's I-dear !
    " Wibbly wobbly timey wimey ......." The Doctor
    " I'm a leafe on the wind..watch how I soar ." Wash :((
    " Oh the wall had it comming.' Sherlock Holmes
    yea I am geek !!
  • scotiamama
    Posts: 1,213Member
    Lisp (always comes outs lips) and wasp (always say waps)
  • DemandaDemanda
    Posts: 4,467Member
    Album! Comes out ablum.
    "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." ~ Gloria SteinemPhotobucket
  • hippiekinshippiekins
    Posts: 1,092Member
    @scotiamama I have the exact same issue with wasp. I also have issues with aluminum, carcass and Mitsubishi
  • AnonUser37
    Posts: 1,765Member
    Forsythia....which wouldn't be a problem, because i mean how often do you need to say thst word.... except i am a dispatcher and forsythia st is in the ghetto so i have to send officers there all the time. I end up sending them to fothithia or forfifia....i just ask my partners to dispatch them at this point lol

    I also cannot ever say fish sticks correctly....fith sticks or fiss ticks it is...
  • AnonUser35
    Posts: 543Guest
    Legitimate...always stumble over it or stutter. So weird!
  • goodmommygoodmommy
    Posts: 1,570Member
    Does Dominican Republic count?
    "Allons-y"
  • [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,528
    Rural. Ugh.
    Get me a damn beer.
  • AutumnAutumn
    Posts: 898Member

    I can't think about fish sticks without remembering the South Park episode with Kanye West..  FISH DICKS!!  =))

    My word..cinnamon.  cimminin..cinnanin..  fuck, I give up..

  • OUCHOUCH
    Posts: 1,877Member
    Demanda said:

    Album! Comes out ablum.



    My husband does this!! Drives me CRAZY!!
    "Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate." - UNK
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  • momofdbbmomofdbb
    Posts: 9,074Member
    Fish sticks and custard !!! Lol. It's a Dr Who thing sorry. I couldn't help myself. :\">
    Anyway along with idea becoming idear I have issues with Aspergers sometimes if I try to say it too quickly it becomes ass-burgers ! DS 12 thinks its hilarious !!
    I took theater classes in high school and was constantly bugged about annunciation and correct annunciation that I lost part of my accent. Ok quite a bit of it. Lol. Many different people have told me I don't sound southern !!
    " Wibbly wobbly timey wimey ......." The Doctor
    " I'm a leafe on the wind..watch how I soar ." Wash :((
    " Oh the wall had it comming.' Sherlock Holmes
    yea I am geek !!
  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,896Member
    Thesaurus, those things Nemo lives in, and rickshaw
    You show the lights that stop me turn to stone, You shine it when I'm alone. And so I tell myself that I'll be strong
    And dreaming when they're gone.
  • missmama5missmama5
    Posts: 3,623Member
    @foulmouthedsailor anemone. I don't have trouble saying any words....but I do pronounce hot dog as hut dog lol and I make myself giggle every time. Hut dog. Ha!
  • JustAConfusedMamaJustAConfusedMama
    Posts: 2,601Member
    aluminum 
  • justkeepswimmingjustkeepswimming
    Posts: 780Member
    coiffure
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  • BlessieBlessie
    Posts: 1,497Member
    Being. It will forever come out bean.
  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,446Member
    I have more of a problem of talking so quickly I start splicing words and mushing them together. I guess my brain is going faster than my mouth can move. I leave out words when I write, too, if I'm writing at a quick clip.
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • DemandaDemanda
    Posts: 4,467Member
    Ha, I do that too when I write, @marysunshine!

    I said "Courtney Love" instead of "courtly love" in my feminist history class on Monday. Felt pretty old, too, when only the prof and 1 other student saw the humour.
    "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." ~ Gloria SteinemPhotobucket
  • LLB
    Posts: 3,279Member
    Hmmm.. I can't think of any for me right now.

    My SIL can't say wolf if her life depended on it though. It comes out either "woof" or "wool-if" =))
  • pistolpackinmommapistolpackinmomma
    Posts: 1,068Member
    every word.  :(  sucks.  had speech issues when i was in elementary school and had worked my ass off and overcame them.  then all the seizures and shit in my brain started and i am back to horrible speech issues.  stuttering, trouble making certain sounds, etc.  and it never seems to be the same word.  just whatever word my brain decides to stumble over at any given time....
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  • GritsGrits
    Posts: 3,745Member
    I don't think it's really trouble pronouncing it, but any word that rhymes with oil either comes out kinda muddy (which is the way everyone here pronounces it, so okay) or two syllables when I try to enunciate for people who aren't southern. And I feel like a jackass when I try to enunciate, so muddy it is!
    "I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles." ~Audrey Hepburn
  • LoveLove
    Posts: 12,772Administrator, Moderator
    Grits said:

    I don't think it's really trouble pronouncing it, but any word that rhymes with oil either comes out kinda muddy (which is the way everyone here pronounces it, so okay) or two syllables when I try to enunciate for people who aren't southern. And I feel like a jackass when I try to enunciate, so muddy it is!



    ::snicker::

    I can't even type the way we say 'oil' or any other word that rhymes with it... I know EXACTLY what you mean, though!

    community-manager


  • undercoverbanana
    Posts: 7,731Member
    astronomer. half the time i mix it up into astromenor. i have to slow myself down.
    i'm nekkid.
  • PurpleFlowersPurpleFlowers
    Posts: 5,629Member
    @love and @grits I soooo wana hear you talk! ;;)
    Stay away from my chocolate and nobody gets hurt!

    I think I like who I am becoming...
  • LoveLove
    Posts: 12,772Administrator, Moderator
    @PurpleFlowers we have a video thread, for accents! I'll go bump it LOL

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  • GritsGrits
    Posts: 3,745Member
    @Love, right?
     
    I was trying to figure out a way to type it the way it sounds, and after sitting here for a minute sounding it out to myself, I realized it was impossible!

    @PurpleFlowers, I'll have to see if I have any video of me I can put on the accents thread...
    "I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles." ~Audrey Hepburn
  • undercoverbanana
    Posts: 7,731Member
    before my kids were born, i had moved from san fransisco to dallas. culture shock. then dallas to east texas. MEGA culture shock. i had a hell of a time with the accent, and i know a lot of people thought i was a smart ass little bitch, but i had NO IDEA what the hell they were talking about. the "earl" in the car........i thought "earl" was some inside joke that they wouldn't explain to me, because i was an outsider. and one person never spoke to me again, after telling me about getting "mosquito et"......and i asked "what is a mosquitoette? a really small mosquito?" (because there ARE biting gnats there. they are HORRIBLE.)   and not long after i got pregnant, i met a guy from WEST texas, and he kept talking to me about the "all-feel".......asked me if i wanted to go and SEE his "all-feel".....and i assumed i just got invited to an orgy. and slapped him. (all-feel....all-feel.......oil field! oh, my god!!!!)   
    i'm nekkid.
  • LoveLove
    Posts: 12,772Administrator, Moderator
    oh-uhL , but all one syllable LOL  more like uhl but a little more o ... fuck, I'm usually really good at sounding out redneck, but I just can't do this sound LMAO

    is that close?

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  • undercoverbanana
    Posts: 7,731Member

    owwww-el. @love   is that close? i was born in alabama and spent quite a bit of time in georgia and south carolina as a little kid.

    i'm nekkid.
  • LLB
    Posts: 3,279Member
    Earl in the car? I'm going to assume that's oil ???

    I cant figure this one out though. @undercoverbanana what is a mosquito et?
  • undercoverbanana
    Posts: 7,731Member
    oww-el or ohh-wel.
    i'm nekkid.
  • undercoverbanana
    Posts: 7,731Member
    @LLB  she got eaten up by mosquitoes, so she was all mosquito-et. as in, et up. (eaten up. et was past tense of eaten.)
    i'm nekkid.
  • LLB
    Posts: 3,279Member
    Gotcha! Lol

    I just read that in my late grandmother voice! I remember her saying "et up" :-)
  • KellynnKellynn
    Posts: 1,977Member
    Exacerbate, how often do you say it, lol
  • Sabzzy
    Posts: 677Member
    There's a few, but the one I can think of right now... 
    notsohotmomma said:

    Rural. Ugh.



    Yup. Can't do it! My mouth don't bend that way!
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    With money we don't have
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  • LoveLove
    Posts: 12,772Administrator, Moderator
    LLB said:

    Gotcha! Lol

    I just read that in my late grandmother voice! I remember her saying "et up" :-)



    Granny would say someone was 'ate up with the dumbass'... like being stupid was a cancerous disease...

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  • LoveLove
    Posts: 12,772Administrator, Moderator
    CKLW said:

    Exacerbate, how often do you say it, lol



    I type it a lot, but I don't think I have ever said it out loud... I don't know that I know how to correctly say it LOL

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  • Katescrazymom
    Posts: 1,847Member
    crayons comes out crans, and celery comes out salery (sell-er-y).  I also mush words together when I'm speaking or writing quickly.  Maybe a slight case of dyslexia?
  • LLB
    Posts: 3,279Member
    @katescrazymom what is the correct pronunciation of celery? I think I say it like you seller-E (saying E not just the sound). I've never heard it said differently.
  • Katescrazymom
    Posts: 1,847Member
    Oops, put that in the wrong place. I'm sure it's pronounced sell-er-y, but I say it salery. I shouldn't try to cut & paste On my phone!
  • LoveLove
    Posts: 12,772Administrator, Moderator
    Oops, put that in the wrong place. I'm sure it's pronounced sell-er-y, but I say it salery. I shouldn't try to cut & paste On my phone!


    HAHAHAHAHA I was fixin to SAY! Is there a pronunciation I've been missing all along? LOL

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  • WickedBitchoftheEastWickedBitchoftheEast
    Posts: 912Member
    Love said:

    oh-uhL , but all one syllable LOL  more like uhl but a little more o ... fuck, I'm usually really good at sounding out redneck, but I just can't do this sound LMAO


    is that close?


    The South generally sounds like 'ole' to me when I hear 'oil' being pronounced.
  • WickedBitchoftheEastWickedBitchoftheEast
    Posts: 912Member
    Florida: Flawrida 

    Dolphin: Dolefin DD gives me such grief over this
  • Marionettevie
    Posts: 2,236Member
    i cant think of any words that give me trouble..... at least not speaking (when my brain works right...after migraines i cant even remember my own name, much less how to speak)  but i think its because my first language is spanish. but dh drives me CRAZY.... with his alunimum....and vEEScount instead of viscount "v'eye'count" and various other shit he doesnt say right. i have to correct him all the time!
  • beachmommybeachmommy
    Posts: 2,516Member
    Torrential. As in torrential rain. I have to slow down and think about it or else I say tarantula rain.

    And for some reason "steel mill".
    My beach is still Sandy....
  • sharkmommy
    Posts: 263Member
    accompanist.  as in "I need to hire an accompanist to play piano for my chorus concert."  Doesn't help that I am a music teacher/choir director and need to use that word frequently, lol.
  • Maggie1272
    Posts: 7Member
    Vulnerable. I have to break in down...Vul...ner...able. Even then 1/2 the time it comes out all assbackwards.
  • momsaidnomomsaidno
    Posts: 1,805Member
    ambulance is my word 

  • GirlsOnly
    Posts: 142Member
    I don't think I have a regularly mispronounced word, but then I can rarely hear my own south Texas accent. I'm sure others can hear my mispronounce words all the time, but to me they're just colloquial pronunciations.

    DH says, 'tan-genital' instead of 'tan-gen-tial,' and it always cracks me up. Tan Genitals - Ha!
    =))
  • momma2Amomma2A
    Posts: 786Member
    Mine has alway been ambulance. If I really think and spell it in my head as I say it then it's okay but in general it comes out " am-blance"

    Another would have to be acetaminophen I can't even explain how it comes out but believe me it's a long jumbled mess.
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