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Words you find difficult to pronounce??

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    #62
    canadianwoman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 811 ✭✭✭canadianwoman


    pedantic


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    #63
    Aglomerado
    Registered Users Posts: 5,770 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Colony. I inevitably say "Connolly."


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    #64
    TommieBoy
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    applicable ....silent c or hard c, I dunno


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    #65
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    Bam Stoker!

    Bram Stroker!


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    #66
    Roselm
    Registered Users Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Roselm


    TommieBoy wrote: »
    applicable ....silent c or hard c, I dunno

    You hear the c so it sounds like a k "aplik-abul"


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    #67
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    I always mess up my own job title! - i.e. bioinformatician!

    What I find interesting is the diversity of words that people are finding difficult to pronounce


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    #68
    jkell061
    Registered Users Posts: 86 ✭✭jkell061


    Prohibited

    usually comes out prohibited-ed


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    #69
    eric hoone
    Registered Users Posts: 485 ✭✭eric hoone


    Lisp


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    #70
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Tangentially


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    #71
    TommieBoy
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    caramel.... how do you say it???


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    #72
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I say 'car-ah-mell', emphasis on the 'car'......CARahmell.


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    #73
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    US-type folks say Car-mell (a little bit like the girl's name we have here, which they've never heard of).

    I think Irish folks tend to rhyme it with Carousel - Cara-mell


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    #74
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    It looks like a pretty place. Plus the possibility of bumping into Clint Eastwood...http://www.carmelcalifornia.com/
    :)


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    #75
    TommieBoy
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    balletic - don't know if its baah-lay-ic or baah-letik sounding :o


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    #76
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    I always thought ba-let-ick. Now I don't know! ?


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    #77
    TommieBoy
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    implacable - not a clue :o


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    #78
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    Just thought I'd throw this in..http://www.forvo.com/

    ...you can enter any word from many different languages and hear them being pronounced. Hope I haven't ruined the thread now!!:P:D

    A word I struggle with is innovative... get tongue-tied sometimes:o

    Hard 'c' on that one K^^;):)


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    #79
    Eeden
    Registered Users Posts: 17,912 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Grid. wrote: »
    Just thought I'd throw this in..http://www.forvo.com/

    ...you can enter any word from many different languages and hear them being pronounced. Hope I haven't ruined the thread now!!:P:D

    Thanks for that, I can see it being incredibly useful!


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    #80
    TommieBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,273 ✭✭✭✭TommieBoy


    how does one say... prerogative? its it pre or per? I've heard it both ways.


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    #81
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I say 'perogative', but so fast it sounds like 'progative'! :) However, I suggest you listen to this guy - move your mouse over the word:

    http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=prerogative


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    #82
    TommieBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,273 ✭✭✭✭TommieBoy


    so, marmalade - spoken as marmalaide or marmulawd?


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    #83
    Pang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    I know these are two words but I can't say them together or my mouth goes all weird and loses control. 'Spice boys'. Not that I say them together too often thankfully:)


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    #84
    eskimocat
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭eskimocat


    Shoulders..

    You know the song when you are little

    Head,
    Shoulders
    Knees and
    Toes....

    Well for me it was always..
    Head
    Showl-jurs
    Knees and toes...

    Also I have trouble with Chest of Drawers. You know, its in the Jest of Jawers over there! lol every time!
    :D


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    #85
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    TommieBoy wrote: »
    so, marmalade - spoken as marmalaide or marmulawd?

    That be marmalaide K:)


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    #86
    TommieBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,273 ✭✭✭✭TommieBoy


    Grid. wrote: »
    That be marmalaide K:)
    Thanks G :D

    ...would Herbs be (silent h) erbs or (hard h) herbs? :confused:


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    #87
    Grid.
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 68,370 Mod ✭✭✭✭Grid.


    Herbs here.....erbs in the States!:D


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    #88
    TommieBoy
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    ^ thanks G :D ...I never say it right! :o

    assignation - assiG?naytion...assiiiy?nation? ...uh-sin?ayshun?
    I'm sooo confused :confused:


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    #89
    AlanS181824
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,575 ✭✭✭AlanS181824


    The name Patricia.

    No matter what, I can never get it right :P


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    #90
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Existentialist and existentialism. I just cannot pronounce them at all :o


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    #91
    43V4 numb3R5
    Site Banned Posts: 3 ✭43V4 numb3R5


    Quay, I don't care, I pronounce it how it's spelled.


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