Superfluous. I can say it, I just have a hard time maintaining momentum between "super" and "fluous". My mind thinks they're two separate words, I guess, which is ludicrous.
Words you can't pronounce
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I have a lot of these partly because I'm american and I have a tendency to slur my words if I'm not careful and partly because I read a lot of words before I heard them said.
Examples that spring to mind are:
salmon - unless I'm paying attention I pronounce the l
biased - pronounced biassed, to have two asses
aluminium - it doesn't matter how hard I try it always comes out as aluminum if I'm talking at normal speed
syrup and Europe - are both slurred so they rhyme and sound like sirp and Eurp
There are more but those are the ones that other people have pointed out to me and in many cases spent a highly amusing (for them) time trying to get me to pronounce them properly.
Examples that spring to mind are:
salmon - unless I'm paying attention I pronounce the l
biased - pronounced biassed, to have two asses
aluminium - it doesn't matter how hard I try it always comes out as aluminum if I'm talking at normal speed
syrup and Europe - are both slurred so they rhyme and sound like sirp and Eurp
There are more but those are the ones that other people have pointed out to me and in many cases spent a highly amusing (for them) time trying to get me to pronounce them properly.
Well, kuh instead of ka is hardly a deal breaker (unless you mean you pronounce it kew, even then its pretty similar).crazyhaircut94 said:
Two years of never being able to pronounce 'die' in German (pronounced 'dee') The class got a laugh out of it. Actually to be fair, I couldn't pronounce much in German, it surprises me to this day that I passed.
Oh and 'ominous' for some reason I would switch the n and m
Oh and 'ominous' for some reason I would switch the n and m
Photosythesis. It gets me every time and it doesn't help I've been studying Biology for the last 7 years. =/
although I am from the netherlands so it's quite different I imagine 
I have a strange relationship with 'subtle'. I pronounce it fine when just speaking, but when reading, be it silently or out loud, I will say it like it looks.
