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Post by Lexica on Mar 12, 2021 21:41:11 GMT
I don't have difficulty with any word, but my mom was famous for the many words that she either couldn't pronounce or couldn't remember. We ended up adopting her word for the item, partly because it was funny, and partly because she understood what we were talking about when using her word. An example was the word Cuisinart, which we used for the kitchen food processor. She would call it a jacuzzi. We tried to just say food processor, but that wouldn't stick in her brain either. It cracked me up, so I started calling it a jacuzzi too. I miss her so much.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 12, 2021 21:56:44 GMT
The only one I can think of is colloquially or colloquialism. I can say colloquial without any problems, it's when I try to add the last syllable I run into trouble.
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Chinagirl828
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Mar 12, 2021 21:57:34 GMT
And my grandmother used to call a whipper snipper a whipple snipple, which is what my sisters and I still refer to them as.
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Post by busy on Mar 12, 2021 22:00:05 GMT
I sound like I have a mouthful of marbles when I try to say "rural."
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Post by AussieMeg on Mar 12, 2021 22:01:15 GMT
Anemone I only found out in the last year or so that it’s anemone and not anenome. 🤪 Well, to be fair, ALL Americans say AND spell aluminium incorrectly. 😜😆 There’s an extra ‘I’ in there, y’all!
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anniebeth24
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Post by anniebeth24 on Mar 12, 2021 22:05:57 GMT
This - A guy named Rory asked me out 45+ years ago when I was in high school - I had to decline, I thought to myself - I cannot say his name - how could I possibly go out with him? I was just going to reply about my friend who really wanted to name her child Rory but was worried about "r" troubles.
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Post by gar on Mar 12, 2021 22:28:57 GMT
Anemo Well, to be fair, ALL Americans say AND spell aluminium incorrectly. 😜😆 There’s an extra ‘I’ in there, y’all! You took the words out of my mouth! 😆
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my3freaks
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Post by my3freaks on Mar 12, 2021 22:51:59 GMT
Camelrised sounds like a new cut of women’s pants trousers. This made me laugh out loud. I'll take a hard pass on that trend if it comes around.
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my3freaks
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Post by my3freaks on Mar 12, 2021 23:18:32 GMT
I can't say words that have the letters AR in them. No one understands when I say shark (which are something my 21 year old has been obsessed with since about 4 years old, so I've looked for them in stores for many years). I end up saying "Jaws", and then they're like "Oh, ok!" Car, garlic, park, argue, etc... When I try to say R I feel like I'm doing weird gymnastics with my mouth trying to form the letter. It's ridiculous, and it doesn't work.
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Post by bc2ca on Mar 12, 2021 23:52:38 GMT
I blame my mom, but there is no "U" in ambulance. It is pronounced "amblance".
The "U" has been added to burglary which is pronounced "burgulary". You know, the crime where a "burgular" takes something that doesn't belong to them.
I avoid both words as much as possible.
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Post by hookturnian on Mar 12, 2021 23:58:34 GMT
When my niece was 3 or 4 she would say waterlemon. Or more accurately "waterlemon, arrgh, wa.ter.me.lon"
When I was in primary school I always had to pause before saying diminutive. I kept seeing it as dimunitive.
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Post by whipea on Mar 13, 2021 0:03:20 GMT
I can never seem to pronounce surveillance, ever. Every so often have issues with words that have "ch" sound at beginning, such as Church. I will come out as "turch". It is only "ch" words. I correct it right away, a bit awkward. Always been this way and have no idea why.
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Post by Lexica on Mar 13, 2021 0:05:55 GMT
My niece discovered she had been mispronouncing two words her entire life and only realized it in elementary school when she learned to spell. She had been saying the words "tree" and "dress" as "chree" and "jress" because that is what she heard. When she finally realized it, she was so upset with her mother for not correcting her. Her mother honestly didn't realize she wasn't saying them correctly. And really, neither did I. I would have set her straight if I had been able to tell exactly what she was saying.
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Post by belgravia on Mar 13, 2021 0:12:33 GMT
I used to work with this gigantic bitch who couldn’t, or didn’t, say adamant. She would add an extra syllable, making it adamANant. I used to laugh silently when she said it and no one would correct her because she was such a twat 🤣
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Post by hookturnian on Mar 13, 2021 0:55:08 GMT
Just an observation related to pronunciation. On internet forums I've noticed an increase in spelling errors that may come from pronunciation shifts. For example
- d and t in the middle of words. Someone referred to a flower pedal. Also, metal and medal. These are pronounced differently in, for example, British English and standard Australian English, but these days I'm hearing the shift to them being pronounced the same. Or even being replaced by almost an r sound. American English seems to have made the shift or lost the distinction some time ago. I wonder if the Australian shift is as a result of exposure to the American pronunciation.
- when u is the ew diphthong. Writing do for due, or in loo of, for in lieu of. To me, when Americans say Tuesday, it sounds like Toosday, so I wonder if that's the basis of this spelling error.
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Post by katlady on Mar 13, 2021 0:56:37 GMT
You took the words out of my mouth! 😆 Well, to be fair, it is a Brits fault that Americans spell it wrong. He couldn’t make up his mind! 😆 “Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812.” ETA - Sorry for the messed up quote. Don’t know what happened.
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my3freaks
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Post by my3freaks on Mar 13, 2021 1:29:09 GMT
I used to work with this gigantic bitch who couldn’t, or didn’t, say adamant. She would add an extra syllable, making it adamANant. I used to laugh silently when she said it and no one would correct her because she was such a twat 🤣 Someone should've said "I'm adamant about the fact you're saying that wrong."
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Post by scrappinmom3 on Mar 13, 2021 2:16:59 GMT
I started a new job as an ELL (English language learner) para this week, and I can’t say half of my students names. 🤪
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chendra
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Post by chendra on Mar 13, 2021 2:52:16 GMT
I once worked at at a zoo with a coworker named Al. I had to prime myself before mentioning his name or I would call him "owl". Job hazard. 😄
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Post by 950nancy on Mar 13, 2021 3:52:41 GMT
I can pronounce it if I don't see the spelling of it first. Worcestershire. If I see it in writing, it goes off the rails.
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Post by Skellinton on Mar 13, 2021 4:10:53 GMT
I can never seem to pronounce surveillance, ever. Every so often have issues with words that have "ch" sound at beginning, such as Church. I will come out as "turch". It is only "ch" words. I correct it right away, a bit awkward. Always been this way and have no idea why. That is common in young children, I learned from one of the speech pathologists that came to help one of my former students that “ch” is actually “sh” and “t” combined in one sound. So, you are just missing the “sh” part of making the sound. We practiced chop-chooing, ah-choo, and chop chop a lot. Very dramatically and loudly, but it helped!
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Post by stampinchick on Mar 13, 2021 4:30:31 GMT
For me it's colonoscopy. Each time I pronounce it a different way but all of them are incorrect.
The other thing is I can't say California Pizza Kitchen. I always say California Pizza Chicken. Every. Single. Time. I can look at the words and read them very slowly but when I get to the word "Kitchen" I say "Chicken". It's the strangest thing, but I just never can say it correctly. I can say the word "kitchen", I just can't say it when "California Pizza" is said before it.
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ComplicatedLady
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Post by ComplicatedLady on Mar 13, 2021 5:00:07 GMT
Oh my word! This is funny, only because I could see it happening to a group of friends or family!!
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Post by Giraffe on Mar 13, 2021 5:53:06 GMT
Adirondack. I always want to stress the second syllable. I have to pause before I say it to remind myself to emphasize the third syllable
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Post by stumpedagainof3 on Mar 13, 2021 14:20:46 GMT
Jewelry
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Post by pierkiss on Mar 13, 2021 20:07:10 GMT
Rural.
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Post by nlwilkins on Mar 14, 2021 0:33:58 GMT
parallel - -my tongue gets lost in all the l's
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Post by auntiepeas on Mar 14, 2021 0:35:51 GMT
I don’t know if this counts but apparently I roll my r’s. It’s common in my neck of the woods, and I don’t hear it myself, but if I had a dollar for every time I’ve been asked to “Say dirty purple work shirt”, I’d be the proud owner of an en-suite with two sinks. Also, when younger ds was very small he once gravely informed dh “Dad, you misunderheard me,”. That’s become a family favourite.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Mar 14, 2021 5:19:16 GMT
We have to be careful with bologna because at some point, dh and I just called it blowme for fun... it stuck.
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Post by nicolescraps on Mar 14, 2021 5:26:13 GMT
I can’t say tour. It sounds like terrrr
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