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  • words you have difficulty pronouncing…
  • alpin
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    Aluminium comes out as “aluminum”. perhaps i’m just lazy.

    tazzymtb
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    pacifically, always have trouble with that one…and skellington

    thomthumb
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    frelescent

    slowoldman
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    Wensdi.

    peterfile
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    preliminary, always seem to chew it up!

    Trimix
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    Never mind those.

    Say this without getting in a knot:

    “Irish wristwatch”

    Mister-P
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    Most people in Milton Keynes have difficulty pronouncing anything that starts “th”. For example the lady at the filling station informed me that my diesel would cost me “firty free pound” earlier this week.

    kcal
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    “yes, dear, sorry, it’s all my fault” 🙂

    DezB
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    Anyfing wiv a “th” innit. Innit.

    Dangerboy
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    brewery

    wwaswas
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    *waits for an opportunity to add a “well that’s easy for you to say” comment in an Eric Morecambe voice*

    jon1973
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    Antidistibilitsmin… anti-misty-linstimbl… anti-stids…anti-distinctly-minty-monetarism…

    verses
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    According to my daughter, just about everything I pronounce is incorrect…

    My own fault I suppose for bringing her up in the south…

    slowoldman
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    A mate of mine in the pub was rocking around on the barstool, slurring quite a lot then came out with “I can’t keep my equilib… equili… equi… balance”. Then fell off.

    Cougar
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    That LlanfairPG place in Wales.

    Stoner
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    Mille-feuille

    AdamW
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    “It’s my round.” 😀

    hjghg5
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    I had two secretaries in a row who couldn’t say penguin.

    I have no idea how we discovered this.

    Klunk
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    [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejuK8_12Fmg[/video]

    graemep
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    soliloquy

    toxicsoks
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    glomerulus or derivations thereof

    – sound like Channel 9 announcer from the Fast Show. Can be a bit awkward when a sizeable amount of my work comes via the renal unit.

    dawson
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    how is it possible to mis-pronounce ‘penguin’?

    Junkyard
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    That LlanfairPG place in Wales

    i can say that one [ full version]as I used to live near there – that is what local say BTW LlanfairPG

    threlkeld in cunbria
    No idea how you say that one

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Klunk, on a similar note, try asking anyone French to say any of the following words;
    Crisps
    Leicestershire
    Portsmouth

    It’s superb!

    Oh, as is their inability to pronounce the h in house, but to add it to owl. Such as , “The howl ooted houtside zee ouse”

    Dibbs
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    I’ve always had a big problem with the word “No” when I’m asked if I want to work overtime (but only if it’s double time). 😳

    cvilla
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    chassis, as in car chassis, I can not say it proper like!

    hjghg5
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    Penguin – one of them said it something like “pinwen”. I can’t remember how the other one mangled it.

    teamhurtmore
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    Prevaricate

    butcher
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    Erythropoietin

    I can never remember if it’s Febuary or February either, but that’s more my stupidity.

    nicko74
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    valeting. As in “the bloke’s valeting the car”. Is it vallaying, or valleting? On its own, it’s vallay, but, yeah, confused

    FeeFoo
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    Mille-feuille

    ^^this.

    My missus is French and loves it when I try to get it right.

    edward2000
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    ??? – always gets me

    jag61
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    baccaruda

    federalski
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    defibrillator.

    alpin
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    on the ze Scherman squirrel thing…..

    oachkatzlschworf…. Bavarian for squirrel. always fun asking the northern Germans to say it.

    ElShalimo
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    Piers Morgan – an involuntary gag-reflux occurs. I can however say a four letter word that accurately describes him

    wwpaddler
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    Catostrophising

    I’m sure this is only a word invented by CBT psychotherapy people to help cheer up the depressed people they’re treating when they can’t say it!!

    Edit: Can’t spell it either!

    avdave2
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    One of the guys at work can’t deal with m’s before n’s and always reverses them hence we get Gernamy and lanimate for example.

    vickypea
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    Statistics
    Also I keep making myself look like a berk, saying “interpretate” at work when I mean “interpret”

    BiscuitPowered
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    My missus can’t say ‘millennium’… comes out Menillium Falcon.

    Even when asked to try to do it slowly, she just can’t.

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