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Words you find difficult to pronounce??

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    #92
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    Existentialist and existentialism. I just cannot pronounce them at all :o

    Thankfully, I have never had to say either of them. :D
    43V4 numb3R5 wrote: »
    Quay, I don't care, I pronounce it how it's spelled.

    Do you mean 'cue-ay' or 'qway'? As a very young child I said 'key' and in school I even spelled it k-e-y. Teacher was not amused. :o


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    #93
    Fafasmurf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭Fafasmurf


    Tarantula... I always end up saying 'Tralantula'
    A friend of mine can't say 'fifth'... it comes out as 'fith' but I think this is pretty common


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    #94
    tringle
    Registered Users Posts: 865 ✭✭✭tringle


    Mnemonics, cant say it at all.
    Also statistician

    My daughter says I cant say series or California


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    #95
    Sephiroth_dude
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 80,492 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sephiroth_dude


    Trying to pronounce Bartolomeu at my confirmation wasn't fun :o :pac:


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    #96
    fitzy211
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭fitzy211


    ordinary, always have to think before I say it, usually end up saying ordrinrary


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    #97
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Being from donegal means I say mirror as mrrrrrr. Then there is "awl" as in the way some people pronounce old. Its just not something I can say. Not that I would want to say it because I didnt just come in from cutting turf a few decades ago but I dont even have the option.


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    #98
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    I realised yesterday that after living in the Netherlands for a few years I can no longer say "mayonaisse" like an Irish person. It's more like My-ownaisse with the emphasis on the "my".

    I also, for the life of me, cannot pronounce "Wolf of Wall Street". Wuffa wull street. Wulfa wuull street. Woofa... that f*cking Leonardo Di Caprio film.


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    #99
    Oryx
    Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    Chiropodist. Never can remember how you say that. Ker-opodist? Sher-opodist? Chee-ropodist? Foot doctor!

    Citizen. I can only say it as cidizen.

    Donkey I usually pronounce as dunkey.


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    #100
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Friend of mine says. Miro instead of mirror. Also she will say varnish instead of furnace. As in this place is like a varnish.

    Can't think of my own at the moment although I am sure something will come to me tomorrow when I look at this again. From what I have seen in the tread so far none of them struck me as words I have mispronounce, but there were a few I simply did not recognize, which will increase the likelihood, I would say it wrong.

    I just remembered now reading in school and struggling with the word czechoslovakia. I had never heard of it then circa 20 years ago.
    I simply could not repicate how I tried to pronounce it that day.


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    #101
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,311 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    'Tweedehandsemotorverkoopsmannevakbondstakingsvergaderingsameroeperstoespraakskrywerspersverklaringuitreikingsmediakonferensieaankondiging', 'lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas', 'vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúraútidyralyklakippuhringur', and 'marmalade'.


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    #102
    Kaycee2
    Registered Users Posts: 136 ✭✭Kaycee2


    Specifically always comes out as Pacifically, i said it once and now its just stuck

    Buoy, can't decide is it boo-ey or boy-ey


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    #103
    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,311 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Kaycee2 wrote: »

    Buoy, can't decide is it boo-ey or boy-ey

    Which side of the Atlantic are you on?

    Pacifically?


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    #104
    Paddy Cow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭Paddy Cow


    Spectacularly

    Is is spec - tac - ul - ar - ly

    or

    Spec - tac - urly

    This was doing my head in the other day. I was trying to pronounce it so much that is stopped sounding like a real word! :o


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    #105
    fastrac
    Registered Users Posts: 718 ✭✭✭fastrac


    Penguins


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    #106
    kimmykins
    Registered Users Posts: 636 ✭✭✭kimmykins


    I absolutely can't say minutiae!


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    #107
    Gits_bone
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭Gits_bone


    Hospital


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    #108
    Frigating
    Registered Users Posts: 249 ✭✭Frigating


    Folk and yolk, those bloody half-silent Ls.


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    #109
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    That Icelandic volcano


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    #110
    Greenmachine
    Registered Users Posts: 5,063 ✭✭✭Greenmachine


    Saw a video there on meath street. Fella in it couldn't say vegetable correctly.


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    #111
    XplaygirlX
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭XplaygirlX


    Spasifically


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    #112
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    endacl wrote: »
    'Tweedehandsemotorverkoopsmannevakbondstakingsvergaderingsameroeperstoespraakskrywerspersverklaringuitreikingsmediakonferensieaankondiging', 'lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas', 'vaðlaheiðarvegavinnuverkfærageymsluskúraútidyralyklakippuhringur', and 'marmalade'.

    Heh, that's funny! I can't pronounce the word "ipickedarandomsentencefromanonenglishlanguageandcopieditwithoutspaces", myself.


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    #113
    XplaygirlX
    Registered Users Posts: 350 ✭✭XplaygirlX


    Paprika


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    #114
    skibum
    Registered Users Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭skibum


    "aluminium" and "permanent" kids and the missus love it when I try to say those word's amongst others....... :o


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    #115
    DunnoKiddo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,963 ✭✭✭DunnoKiddo


    'A blessing in disguise' always comes out 'a blessing in the skies'.


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    #116
    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Phenomenal

    I always have to take my time when I'm saying it


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    #117
    LucaDat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭LucaDat


    prerogative..... its' pronunciation makes no sense to me


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    #118
    AppleBottle
    Registered Users Posts: 1,421 ✭✭✭AppleBottle


    Regularly, particularly, security, multiplication.


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    #119
    Stheno
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 51,688 Mod ✭✭✭✭Stheno


    Penguin, I pronounce it pengweng :(


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    #120
    LucaDat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭LucaDat


    Ruler.... comes out woo-lwer every time.


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    #121
    greenwicklow
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭greenwicklow


    quinoa


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