Any words that you simply CANNOT speak.

[flyingwithsharks]

Oh I already am, I'm an English major and can't even get that right. One of my professors was irate with my inability to say it properly. I had to explain I know the spelling, definition and everything else about the two different words, I just can't say it.

would you say that cinnamon and synonym are... synonyms?

No.

 

[RivFader86]

Pretty much the title. Today I noticed while studying for a test that I can't say the word 'Massachusetts.' Keeps coming out as 'Massa-two-shits' for some bizzare reason.

Same here...sounding like Messachooshits when i say it

 

[MisterM2402]

Can;t say Anenome though (probably spelt wrong.. its the plant that Nemo lives in!) whenever i try i just get this stammer An...an...a...an...anena...fuckit!

Sea anemone? Uh-nem-oh-nee.

Just say "An enemy" - you can say those two words one after the other, right?

Except that would be wrong, too; the overall sound is right, but if you do it that way, the n and the m are switched. Dags90 had the right pronunciation.

Edit: Although if you don't mind breaking it down to more than two words, you could go with "a Nihm oh Knee." Granted, that's exactly what Dags suggested, but at least mine are actual words; the second one is part of the title of the book The Rats of Nihm.

Oh man... you've made me realise I've been saying it wrong all this time >.< For some reason I thought it was spelled "anenome" - just looked it up for the pronunciation, and that's not the case.

I mean, it's not exactly a common word, but I can't believe I didn't know the correct spelling, when I'm usually such a stickler for that kinda thing

I always assumed anyone who said "a-ne-mo-ne" were the people that "couldn't say it right"; I thought anemone was WRONG. Whenever anyone said anemone, it just sounded *wrong* to my ears, like they were trying to say a word and fumbling it.

Shit.

Edit: I keep listening to the pronunciation and it just sounds so retarded XD

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Loving the profile pic you have there Played the game through again a month or so ago, and I can't stop listening to the soundtrack
"Farewell, Agent Calavera."

 

[sanomaton]

"Benevolent" is the hardest word of English I can think of atm. Now I can pronounce it almost ok, though, before I wasn't able to say it at all. "Daughter" was another one but I practiced it as well until I was able to say it

My classmates aren't able to say "squirrel" and it sounds quite funny when they try...

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

I have yet to find the word that I can't pronounce if we're looking at my dialect/language specifically. Naturally, there are a lot of words in foreign languages that I have difficulty with (FUCK languages with contrastive aspiration).

But if we're speaking inter-dialectally, allow me to offer some fun ones that should hold for quite a few of you:
Can you pronounce a difference between pin and pen?
Between caught and cot?
What about line and loin?
Mare and mayor?

 

[Bvenged]

I can't say "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will be an amazing game, just like Modern Warfare 2 was!".
Probably has something to do with me being an experience gamer with a brain or something...

 

[Tom Artingstall]

I can't hear/pronounce the difference between "F" and "Th" sounds in a word. Until recently, when it was pointed out to me that I was saying "Thursday" wrong, I never even knew there -was- a difference. After about twenty minutes of trying to curl my tongue into an odd shape and say it "the right way", I gave up and came to terms with the fact that I would spend the rest of my life as a slurring, lisping freak with all the grammatical capabilities of a semi-alcoholic sailor who can't pronounce "Th".

 

[Signa]

A word that I simply can't speak? How about the full name of the protein Titin? It's 189,819 CHARACTERS LONG. THAT'S RIGHT, 189,819 LETTERS! I dare anyone to try and recite the full name. As the video shows, even with it being said at a rapid pace, the video is STILL over eight minutes long.


/thread forever

I think you just found me my new ringtone.

OT: I work in a warehouse that sells vitamin supplements. About 2/3rd of the supplements are unpronounceable, so I don't even try.

 

[gigastrike]

Rome: Total War taught me that I can't say "scythed chariots". It always comes out as "scythedet sheriots".

 

[RagTagBand]

"you know i'm really getting tired of this blowjob"

Every time I try to say it, all that comes out is "mmMMMMOOOAR"

 

[IKSA]

Deus Ex I always say it as Deusex

 

[Danhoyt]

Juggernaut. It takes a great deal of effort to say juggernaut and not sugarnaut.

 

[Magicmad5511]

Used to have a problem with the word millennium. Said it as minnellium.

 

[st0pnsw0p]

Ph´nglui mglw´nafh Cthulhu R´lyeh wgah´nagl fhtagn.
Also, I always pronounce "antithesis" with a long "I".

 

[6unn3r]

Most Americans cant pronounce "Worcestershire" as in Worcestershire sauce.

Realy gets them tongue tied.

Oh and the classic "Aluminium", its not alooominuum, its al-u-min-ium.

Me? i have no problems saying any words because im British.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Stethoscope, I can never EVER say that damn word right.

I always end up saying stethethscope, and I end up stopping and trying to say it right before giving up.

That word is the devil to me.

 

[Speedwagon]

roar, comes out as "ra"

 

[RRAAKK]

i cant say the "n" word

sucks cause i cant read 20000 leagues under the sea without screwing up on nautilus.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

"Do you know what comedian really needs their own show? That their fans are dying to watch?
Rosie O'Donnell."