Any words that you simply CANNOT speak.

[smearyllama]

The French pronunciation of "R" is tough for me sometimes.
Especially when I'm on the spot in class having to pronounce a word with only a few syllables that makes it nearly impossible to cover up the R sound.

 

[darkcalling]

My grandparents (on both sides) say Wal-Marts. No there are not two of them in town.

 

[lacktheknack]

I used to find it impossible to say innovative.. but i recently managed it somehow

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!

Try saying "An enemy".

Personally, I have troubles with floccinaucinihilipilification. I keep saying "philipifica" instead "hilipilifica".

It's kind of sad.

 

[game-lover]

I'm pretty sure it has to do with talking fast quite often. But there are a lot of stuff I've never said properly.

Two things that come to mind off the top of my head are the names of two schools where I live.

An elementary school called D. Mac Ray gets muddled into "D Mac Grey" and a middle school called Dunbar is always pronounced "Dumbar."

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

ak93]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The longest place name in the UK.

Does Cthulhu's family live there or something? Goddam you cant even pronounce that many letters together lacking vowels.

It's impossible in English.... but translate it and it works -- [St] Mary's Church (Llanfair) [in] the hollow (pwll) of the white hazel (gwyngyll) near (goger) the rapid whirlpool (y chwyrndrobwll) [and] the church of [St] Tysilio (llantysilio) with a red cave ([a]g ogo goch).

Technically not a word... it's a town.

OT - good thread!

I think it calls for some 30 Rock


I struggle with juror as well as community... but I am improving with both... I hope...

Also, Welsh vowels are different than vowels in pretty much any other language -- so are the consonants, for that matter. W makes an ooh sound, and DD makes a soft th sound, so, for example, the University of Aberstwydd (I hope I spelled that right) would be pronounced "University of Ab-Er-Stew-Ith." Incidentally, Tolkien used some very Welsh-like pronunciation rules in a lot of his made up languages; I know for a fact that Dh makes a soft th sound in elvish, and kh makes a ch sound in Dwarven -- meaning that "Khazad-Dum" is properly pronounced "Chaz-ad-doom," while "Galadhrim", properly pronounced, would be something like "Gal-uh-thrim."

 

[The Almighty Grigard]

Counter intuitively.


Becomes counter intuvivlvly.



I can't even spell it actually. I had to rely on the damn spell checker. And I was way off. FML

 

[rob_simple]

Innovative, I always throw in an extra syllable and end up with ininovative. Every God damn time.

 

[MindBullets]

I find myself occasionally saying the word programming like "pogramming" or "porgramming" if I'm not paying attention to my own speech. Which happens more than you'd think.

Often my train of thought will go too fast for my speech to keep up and I'll end up squishing two consecutive words I'm trying to say together. Like if I was going to start a sentence with "The bank rang..." I'd end up saying "The brang... erm sorry, the bank rang..."

 

[Crazy Zaul]

One that I often mess up is the name M. Night Shyla..mama...lama..man.

 

[Palademon]

Not me, but I know someone who can't pronounce the name "Martin" with an english accent.

 

[Princess_Dee]

Rural.
I have so much trouble with it. And after a few failed attempts at correcting myself it comes out "RURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRL."

Also ***sin***
The Russian word for son. "Sin" But draw the tongue back. "Selyn." "Scene." "Seehn."
Bah!! Minya eta ne nravitsa....

 

[Staskala]

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
I can say Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft though.

This is why German is the coolest language around. That work actually makes sense, but you did forget that "dampfschifffahrt" has three "f's".

Going Grammar Nazi on a German? Bad idea.
While "Schifffahrt" is the correct spelling these days, the company was always called Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft, because at the time of its founding "Schiffahrt" was still correct. Meanwhile the company has changed hands (and names) a few times and currently calls itself "Erste Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft" - still with only 2 f's.
By the way, that (i.e. the various language reforms) is the reason why German is most definitely not the coolest language around. There are quite a few things where I have no idea if what I'm writing is still considered right.

 

[Cleariously]

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. The longest place name in the UK.

Does Cthulhu's family live there or something? Goddam you cant even pronounce that many letters together lacking vowels.

its in wales.
i will assume this is a valid reason.

Thats because when we invaded they created their own language to fuck with us so they could speak in code we couldn't understand... we still can't >.>

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the example of two people in the war office responsible for creating fake names, drunk(of course) and one giving the other a dare.

(this is all a joke, don't be offended the people of wales)

That would imply that welsh people can speak welsh, and believe me, we can't.

I can say Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch however.

 

[kickyourass]

Asside from those from other languages, the only one I can think of is '****' it's such an ugly word in every sense, it sounds ugly, it feels ugly to say, and it means something extremely ugly. Not sure how anyone can stand saying it cause when I do it feels like I'm trying to regurgitate a brick.

 

[mmins]

I can't say Massachusetts either.
Feels bad man...
I also cant say Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia.

 

[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

-snip-

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?