Everything, Nothing & Stuff In-between -
Random stuff from my brain
U is for Unspeakable.
I'm going to tell you a secret.
An embarrassing secret.
I can't say the word...Worcestershire. You know, like the sauce? Worcestershire sauce. Can't say it.
Thinks that's funny?
How about Anemone? Like a Sea Anemone? Looks easy enough, but when I try to say it, it doesn't come out right. At. All. :)
Do you have any words that you have trouble pronouncing?
HA! I grew up in an area where people routinely mispronounced "library" as "liberry," and had a mother who was a terrible mispronouncer of words. It's made me so conscious of it.
ReplyDeleteIn our house, no one can say Worcestershire (I'm convinced it's a trick word that has no true pronunciation, no matter what anyone says). We just call it "what's-this-here-sauce" and leave it at that.
I have several, usually words I encounter reading and have never heard spoken: outlier (it is out-LIE-er or out-LEE-er?), the poet W.H. Auden's last name (OW-den? AH-den?), and a number of French words. I used to call parfait "para-fat". Oh the shame.
ReplyDeletethere are a lot of words I can't pronounce and is slightly embarrassed by it but I don't care as much as before. one time I forgot how to pronounce deodorant which drove me crazy because I was shopping for it...
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I can't say that W one either...or spell it! I think it's supposed to be pronounced like 'wuster'...but that seems all kind of wrong to me!
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TheCyborgMom
i have troubles with the 2nd word too. all the time. :D
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My mom has always made fun of me for the way I say "poinsettia." Every Christmas, I know she's going to point to a red flower and ask me what it is, then chuckle.
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Hi Heather - this is fun ... though I'm pretty useless at thinking about this sort of thing ... fillum is one ... South African for film ...
ReplyDeleteWorcster sauce ... do ... I love the stuff!!!
Devonshire for Devon ... tis Devon ...
But so we go ... cheers and well done - Hilary
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LOL! I can's say that word either. I give it way too many syllables.
ReplyDeleteI am impressed you can spell the w-sauce! Today I was having trouble saying calvary, and had to say it several times as I was dropping something off at a club with the name...wait, google says I have it spelled wrong-is it not a word and THAT is why I can't say it?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little and read The Hobbit by myself I didn't know how to pronounce the name of the dragon Smaug so even today I always think Sm - ow (as in cow)- g rather than Sm - or - g! Being British, Worcestershire isn't a problem :)
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WOOST-e-sheer. You're welcome. XD
ReplyDeleteOddly enough, I have throuble with "lily."