[Closed] words you have difficulty pronouncing...

pacifically, always have trouble with that one...and skellington

frelescent

Wensdi.

preliminary, always seem to chew it up!

Never mind those.

Say this without getting in a knot:

"Irish wris****ch"

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.

"yes, dear, sorry, it's all my fault" 🙂

Anyfing wiv a "th" innit. Innit.

brewery

*waits for an opportunity to add a "well that's easy for you to say" comment in an Eric Morecambe voice*

Antidistibilitsmin... anti-misty-linstimbl... anti-stids...anti-distinctly-minty-monetarism...

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

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

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.

That LlanfairPG place in Wales.

Mille-feuille

"It's my round." 😀

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

I have no idea how we discovered this.

soliloquy

glomerulus or derivations thereof

how is it possible to mis-pronounce 'penguin'?

That LlanfairPG place in Wales

threlkeld in cunbria
No idea how you say that one

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"

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). 😳

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

Penguin - one of them said it something like "pinwen". I can't remember how the other one mangled it.

Prevaricate

Erythropoietin

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

valeting. As in "the bloke's valeting the car". Is it vallaying, or valleting? On its own, it's vallay, but, yeah, confused

Mille-feuille

^^this.

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

??? - always gets me

baccaruda

defibrillator.

on the ze Scherman squirrel thing.....

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

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

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!

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.

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

My missus can't say 'millennium'... comes out Menillium Falcon.

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

CaptainFlashheart - Member

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"

For two years, my old boss lived in the 'Thouse of Barze'. Then he moved to the 'south of Bath' and all became clear...

give it a couple of hours,it'll be extra chilli sauce

Further to the n's and m's: [s]Pandemom[/s] Pandemonium...

anthropomorphisation and compartmentalisation.

I have to concentrate really hard when I try to pronounce either of these and consequently end up looking a bit simple 😳

I can't say briefcase, my brain defaults to suitcase. Don't know why..