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#4500588 - 12/16/19 10:40 PM Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?  
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There are words that we just can't pronounce.

I think we all have one or two.

Like, I have a friend who can't never pronounce sheet and beach correctly.

He turns them into foul words.

For me it will be the word Worcestershire !!

I have been trying for many many years.

After watching this several times, I still can't pronounce it.





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#4500591 - 12/16/19 11:32 PM Re: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ? [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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#4500594 - 12/16/19 11:39 PM Re: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ? [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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If you are from Massachusetts it’s “Woostah”. smile


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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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And in many parts of the South the word “cement” is not pronounced as ceh-ment but cee-mint.


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#4500599 - 12/17/19 12:25 AM Re: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ? [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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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 - 12/17/19 12:25 AM Re: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ? [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
If you are from Massachusetts it’s “Woostah”. smile


I have a good friend of 30 years from Boston.

Believe me when I say after all these years, when he speaks, I still don't understand him half of the time.


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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".


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#4500606 - 12/17/19 01:39 AM Re: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ? [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Kvass and Vodka, two very key words if you hang around a lot of Slavpeoplekind.

It's that damned 'V', which is pronounced halfway between a V and a W, I cannot do.


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What is a Kvass?


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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
What is a Kvass?


Fermented beverage made from bread, tastes like a cross between a really light beer and a soft drink.

#4500610 - 12/17/19 02:16 AM Re: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ? [Re: NoFlyBoy]  
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Long chemical names and such aside, as well as foreign words, I can't ever recall having trouble pronouncing one.

But the tongue twister "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" has tripped me up before!

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Originally Posted by Crane Hunter
Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
What is a Kvass?


Fermented beverage made from bread, tastes like a cross between a really light beer and a soft drink.


Thank you.

Originally Posted by Zamzow


But the tongue twister "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" has tripped me up before!


Try saying this one 10 times real fast:

"Pad kid poured curd pulled cod"

According to MIT researchers, it's the toughest tongue twister in the world.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2013/12/11/mit-tongue-twister/3985789/


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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
Originally Posted by Crane Hunter
Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
What is a Kvass?


Fermented beverage made from bread, tastes like a cross between a really light beer and a soft drink.


Thank you.

Originally Posted by Zamzow


But the tongue twister "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" has tripped me up before!


Try saying this one 10 times real fast:

"Pad kid poured curd pulled cod"

According to MIT researchers, it's the toughest tongue twister in the world.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2013/12/11/mit-tongue-twister/3985789/


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...

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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 wink ) without a slip.


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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 wink ) without a slip.



Are you sure that's not a German word? biggrin


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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
Try saying this one 10 times real fast:

"Pad kid poured curd pulled cod"

According to MIT researchers, it's the toughest tongue twister in the world.


I can't even read that properly :/


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Originally Posted by Zamzow
Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
Originally Posted by Crane Hunter
Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
What is a Kvass?


Fermented beverage made from bread, tastes like a cross between a really light beer and a soft drink.


Thank you.

Originally Posted by Zamzow


But the tongue twister "The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" has tripped me up before!


Try saying this one 10 times real fast:

"Pad kid poured curd pulled cod"

According to MIT researchers, it's the toughest tongue twister in the world.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2013/12/11/mit-tongue-twister/3985789/


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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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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