Chicken Girl

and don't the brits also spell it differently?

American: Aluminum
Brit: Aluminium

lunachick

Well, thank jolly hockeysticks you're okay.


I tend to have trouble saying, "I'm sorry". Sometimes I get so tongue-tied on that, that it can come out sounding like, "Shut up you little bugga".

The other one is, "I love you". That can sometimes come out sounding like, "Look, just clean your bloody room, ok."

Other than that, I'm pretty good at pronunciations - especially if it's the Kiwi version.

Amen-Moses

http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/index.html

Note the discoverer and namer was a Brit, it's the merkins who spell it wrong, the rest of the world use the proper spelling.

Amen-Moses

Infinity Lover

There's no right or wrong in this here thread; only differences. M'kay?

reddhedd

Adirondacks.
It always wants to come out as uh-DEAR-undax instead of adder-ON-dax
My husband is always trying to make me say it because then he gets to laugh and point at me.
I also can't say Abbott and Costello. For whatever reason, it seems to need an "N' in Co(n)stello!
My husband (sick man that he is) always teaches our children around the age of three to say "I'm a smart fella, I'm a fella smart" 3x fast. Then he laughs all day.....
K.

Yggdrasill

I tend to mix up the pronounciation of thrust and trust. So, I sometimes say things along the lines of: "I thrust you, uh, no, I trust you."

lunachick

LOL! I'm going to get my 9 year old to do that as soon as she wakes up this morning. That appeals to my rather juvenile sense of humour. Heheheh.


Oh, and I just remembered that I can't say archipalego.

Mediancat

Occasionally I stutter on very common words, such as put and pass. No matter how much I try or how many I words I can say cleanly around them, I just have to give up and come up with a synonym. It's very annoying.

But on more complex words, the one I have the hardest time saying is "virulent." I always strain the first syllable to the breaking point: "Veeeeeeerrrrr-u-lent."

Thankfully, it's not a word that comes up often in casual conversation.

Rob aka Mediancat

livius drusus

I have to stop myself from pronouncing innovative in-NOV-ative, and people tell me I say electricity in a weird way, but I can't really hear what they're talking about.

Other than that:

I'm a mother pheasant plucker. I pluck mother pheasants. I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker that ever plucked a mother pheasant.

livius drusus

Oh and sorry for thinking you were off your rocker, Infinity Lover. I blame all those i's in the aluminum foil. They deceived me.