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Words you have trouble understanding in other countries (and vice versa)
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My wife cannot say this either.
I can say it, it just sounds incredibly awkward with its letter combinations.
iluvparis
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Squirrel?
Yeah cinnamon gets me too. Usually comes out as sim-ma-men
Remuneration - always say 'renumeration' on the first attempt
Frontline's Mike Moore had a bit of trouble with 'investigative'
Don't get me started on ppl who say orientated
Frontline's Mike Moore had a bit of trouble with 'investigative'
Don't get me started on ppl who say orientated
Just roll the R
nucular
foilage
chowder
learned
foilage
chowder
learned
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I prefer reading it in Braille.
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I'm usually pretty good with European names/places/pronunciations (who needs to learn languages when you grww up watching soccer on SBS with Les Murray and Tony Palumbo?) but I battle with some of the islander names in the rugby.
All the apostrophes throw me off, plus I've seen the letter C pronounced many ways with/without diacritics. Cat, chat, sat, tzat... Meanwhile Caucaunibuca somehow comes out 'thow thow'.
All the apostrophes throw me off, plus I've seen the letter C pronounced many ways with/without diacritics. Cat, chat, sat, tzat... Meanwhile Caucaunibuca somehow comes out 'thow thow'.
Ironically, ‘pronunciation’.
I embedded a lot of mispronunciations in my head as a kid, because I was a voracious reader and often spent years reading a word before I ever heard or spoke it.
There’s still a lot of words I seldom use that, when I do, I pronounce completely wrong. I know the correct way to say them - it’s just via force of mental habit from 25+ years ago. That’s how those words have always ‘sounded’ in my head.
I embedded a lot of mispronunciations in my head as a kid, because I was a voracious reader and often spent years reading a word before I ever heard or spoke it.
There’s still a lot of words I seldom use that, when I do, I pronounce completely wrong. I know the correct way to say them - it’s just via force of mental habit from 25+ years ago. That’s how those words have always ‘sounded’ in my head.
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What about words you find difficult to spell- even seemingly easy ones.
It took me years to finally get restaurant correct- just getting that u in the right spot.
I am unable to spell guaranteed.
WTF!? I actually got it right first time then. Practically never happened before. I'm quitting now while I'm ahead.
'chief' for me. lucky I don't have to use it often. sheriff as well - for some reason I always go through sherriff, sherif, sherrif then sheriff. and sometimes sheffirr if I'm really out of it.
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