Words You Cannot Say

[SpookyScarySkeleton]

What words can you not say no matter how hard you try?

I cannot say(along with other words probly)

-shrek

-shrimp

-Hermoine

What about you guys?

[Chanel_no5]

Not that I often use these words, but I cannot for the life of me say "extinguish" or "exsanguination", or variations thereof. I just can't twist my tongue to switch between those sounds when they come so close upon each other.

[PuddinPop]

Anemone. Meant to be pronounced an-em-oh-nee. I just can't do it. At all. Ever. No matter how slow I say it, it still comes out wrong.

Also, submarine. I always get the B and M the wrong way round and end up saying sumbarine

[SomethingClever]

curtesy... I say court-isey and that is apparently wrong?

[SleepingPhlox]

Admiralty. Whoever got the notion to arrange those letters in that order needed a smack upside the head. I can do tongue twisters like a boss but I cannot get to grips with that word. Fortunately, it doesn't exactly come up in conversation that often...

[MaiMai]

Somnambulist. I always miss out the first 'm' completely. I can't say it in combination with the whole word, for some reason. Again, though, it's not really a word that often comes up in conversation.

[Mustang]

Staccato- I can say this word, but I butcher it ninety percent of the time. The worst way I've pronounced it was scatacato. I have never pronounced this word correctly, unless I visualize the spelling in my head first.

Pearl- I've always pronounced it peer-al. I cannot seem to get my tongue back enough to say pearl.

[skater]

Asterisk!

Also in Italian class, I can't say any words that require rolling my r's

[Melody]

I know this might be very odd but people tell me I butcher the words Las Vegas and gigantic... clearly I have some serious issues because these are not hard words

[Dusty15]

I can't say ambulance. I say it "ambliance" for some strange reason.

[tenderwarrior]

Variety.

It takes me a few times to say it correctly and I'm so confused as to why it's so hard for me to say!

[SleepingPhlox]

Another one became painfully obvious to me today as I tried to say it, although it's more a combination of words:

"tax disc"

The words on their own are fine but put then together and consider my tongue well and truly twisted!

[Sawyer]

"Both". It always comes out sounding like "bolth", which I hate, and I've been working on training myself to say it without the L for 5 years. I still can't get it, so I've started avoiding saying it! Maybe if i envision it being spelled "bothe" instead, I might have an easier time. I will report back.

Also, the word "cool" often comes out sounding like "coo-ull" unless I mumble it. Super annoying, but I'm working on that one too!

[bloom]

Twelfth. "fth" seems to be impossible for me in this word - I just say 'twelth' and hope nobody notices. This is particularly inconvenient and annoying because my birthday is a twelfth.

[meepsy]

Onion. I've always said it like "ohn-yun" as opposed to "ung-yun". Also guilty of pronouncing milk like "melk" although I kick myself every time!

Edited September 15, 2015 by meepsy

[Icarus Rex]

I can't say "brewery", I always say "brew'ry".

Also, words starting with "pr-", like "prescribe" and "pretend". I know how to say them, but they always come out with the "e" and the "r" reversed: PERscribe and PERtend. It sounds HORRENDOUSLY DUMB, but I really can't pronounce them correctly unless I'm INTENTLY FOCUSED on doing so.

Also, I have a really hard time NOT pronouncing the "l" in "folk(s)". I'm capable of not doing so, but the "l" just feels so good, for some reason.

[SpookyScarySkeleton]

to add another word to this horrible list of my failures

-Plaid

today I learned that I can't say "plaid" , I say it like "braid". "played" is how "plaid" comes out

[TheMaster]

I can never say bibliography right. I always end up saying biblio- blog- raphy.

[meepsy]

New ones i have encountered recently:

- Mauve. Is it pronounced "mohve" or "mahve"? I always start it one way and then change my mind halfway through and eventually just give up and hide my face in shame.

- Macabre. How much of the 'r' are you supposed to put in the end? A little? A lot? None? Who knows? (not me, that's for sure!)

[CharliesGirl]

"Drawing" is a hard one for me!

[Dodie]

I can't say the word "rural". It's the R's that just don't feel right. And then the word "alternative/alternatively" I always have to think before saying this because for some reason it's just too dang hard for me to say haha.

[Kalla]

"Horror" and most of all, "mirror." Grew up in New England problems.

I live in the Midwestern USA now so I can be constantly reminded how much I trip over too many damn R's.

[SeaHeart]

I have trouble with "mural."

[MegOfAllTrades]

I'm Southern, so for the most part all my "t" s are pronounced "d" s, also cannot say the words "gift" or "rivalry" correctly either.

[TheWolfOfStone]

I found out recently that apparently pronouncing differ with the accent on the last syllable is wrong. So I've been sounding stupid every time I say this word. I have a hard time with "subtle" (I correct myself halfway through and it comes out "subt-suttle), and with "vary" (vari-ee, lol). To hell with the English language.