#4500594 - 12/16/1911:39 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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If you are from Massachusetts it’s “Woostah”.
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#4500595 - 12/16/1911:41 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Some southern US dialects pronounce "pen" as "pin". Trying to write with a pin is difficult. Putting your dog in one is darned near impossible.
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#4500597 - 12/16/1911:43 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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And in many parts of the South the word “cement” is not pronounced as ceh-ment but cee-mint.
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#4500599 - 12/17/1912:25 AMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Anything in german, i can mind guess pronunciation for polish and russian words really well, indian too, but in spite of our fellow german simmers...german is not a language, its just noises you make when you a drunk......there i said it.
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#4500600 - 12/17/1912:25 AMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Believe me when I say after all these years, when he speaks, I still don't understand him half of the time.
#4500602 - 12/17/1912:31 AMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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I'm amazed at how many people that can't say "button" these days. Like not even close. It's a very pronounced "Buh-in" I don't remember ever noticing that until a few years ago, so I assume there's a reason for it. It doesn't seem to be a regional thing either. Lord knows we pronounce things in all manner of crazy ways in MS. My wife can't say "jeweler".
I didn't find that challenging at all. But I should "confess" that I have the biggest loudest mouth you've ever heard. Not MY opinion, that is the opinion of everyone who's ever encountered me in my 49 years. I am ALWAYS being told I should have been a singer, a radio announcer, a sports commentator, a TV/Movie voice actor, a voice talent for commercials, etc...
Maybe if I liked talking to people that could have been something...
#4500623 - 12/17/1904:55 AMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" Learned it as a kid. Hasn't even crossed my mind in years until just now. Can say it (teeth in or out ) without a slip.
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#4500637 - 12/17/1911:26 AMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Originally Posted by vonBaur
"Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" Learned it as a kid. Hasn't even crossed my mind in years until just now. Can say it (teeth in or out ) without a slip.
Are you sure that's not a German word?
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#4500657 - 12/17/1901:56 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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I didn't find that challenging at all. But I should "confess" that I have the biggest loudest mouth you've ever heard. Not MY opinion, that is the opinion of everyone who's ever encountered me in my 49 years. I am ALWAYS being told I should have been a singer, a radio announcer, a sports commentator, a TV/Movie voice actor, a voice talent for commercials, etc...
Maybe if I liked talking to people that could have been something...
I don’t find it difficult, either, and I’m one of those whose tang gets all tongueled up saying almost anything fast.
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#4500665 - 12/17/1902:27 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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In Polish they have a tongue twister that translates into "The legs of the chair are broken." I have made it my goal, as a non-native Polish speaker, to wow the Poles with my being able to pronounce that tongue twister.
I also found recently when talking to my son that I have a hard time pronouncing "shape sorter" lately.
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