I have trouble with "sixths".
and "twelvths"
My children's optometrist is a place called "Tropical Optical". I can't do it.
Unique New York
Ostentatious Austin, Texas
Months. The S after the TH as in THink vs THe, is difficult.
Most native speakers do not really pronounce the "ths". Typically you hear "mons".
Stumbled on this tongue twister in the wild. It's freaking impossible.
Soldier shoulder surgery.
Native English speaker here. Aside from catching crap for regional accent differences, I didn't have any noticeable, repeating problems until COVID. I can't, for the life of me, properly pronounce comorbidity. Even when I really concentrate on it, it tends to come out as comorbibity. It really makes me sound stupid as hell.
I'm from the American Southeast. I speak with a tarheel drawl. To listen to me speak, you'd think the word "rural" has four Rs in it. Rrrrl.
To be fair, r is a secret vowel.
We'll eventually give up and thesaurus it.
Rrrrl. Rrrrl. RRRRL. Out inna woods.
My sister can't say sea minerals without it sounding like semen roll.
You could always claim you learned English from Irish English speakers: they commonly substitute dental frictives with the plosives, so /th/ with /t/ or /d/.
And the nimmins are replaced by addabs.
February. I'm happy I don't have to say it often.
When I was younger I read and listened to a lot of English but didn't speak too much. It took me years to get a better hang of "Three" and "Free".
Thats ok, there are entire regions of London that have the same problem.
I can not wrap my tounge around ambulance while in a sentence.
So as an Aussie I just call them ambos.
Grew up in the US (the Deep South)… moved to England, have been here for like a bajillion years and unfortunately still sound American 😕
But for me it is crisps. Why do we have to say this word when it is so awkward?!?
You are not alone on this one.English is not my first language so I have to make a conscious effort with words that have STS sounds like: Ghosts, forests, dentists and crisps. Lol.
Glad to know I’m not alone, I don’t really understand why humanity has made things so hard for humanity at times… surely this can’t also be linked to greed like so many other issues?!? 😅😅
Any combination of "th" and "s". Like "months", " clothes", etc.
I used to find words that had the letter R followed by an L difficult. Like girl, world, etc. They're still a bit tongue twisty tbh
Those 'r's are silent. The previous vowel just gets lengthened.
Just drop the “r” English-style - “guhl”, “wuhld”. Easy!
Or you could go the other way and roll the “r” like the Seventh Doctor.
You know, a funny thing with the rolled R is that as a young kid I couldn't do it, so in 0th grade I basically had to take additional special classes to practice it, but then a couple of years later when we started 2nd grade and thus started english, I had trouble unlearning to roll my R's as it was so ingrained in my brain by then lol :3. So I basically flipped my problem around
English speaker - corollary.
It means to have the property of being a Toyota Corolla
Australian here and with my bigan arse accent I struggle to pronounce the word "regularly"
I break it up to much when I read it into reg-u-lar-ly
If i say it is just roll through the last have and get regurrrly
In my tarheel accent, a consonant Y often gets sanded to an uh sound. Especially when speaking quickly it's not uncommon to hear a Carolinian say "REG-uh-lurr" rather than "REG-yew-lurr".
"probably" is awkward for me. I used to drop the b's and pronounce it "pro'ly", but now I make the effort to use "likely" instead
non native here
girl, world, rivalry
in ascending difficulty, i generally find soft Rs hard to say, tho after a few years, it became easier
"Assthedick"
Now you'll never forget.
As a native english speaker, obsequious.
"Phthalates"
That's not an English word, that's a space catholic word.
I have a disdain for technical latin, Stop telling me I have hypernatremia; high blood salt is exactly as detailed and like 54 syllables shorter.
I have pretty much no split between four and thaw. Can’t even hear the difference when someone else does it.
+1 for "th". I'm from germany and it's like impossible to pronounce for me.
I am becoming more convinced that I should have been a voice actor......
Paw and Poor sounds like the same word in my dialect, so I have to put in effort to switch to Received Pronunciation when I need to differentiate
For me, probably "specific" and "interdisciplinary"
Pacific
I know most Germans struggle with the word "squirrel".
Hierarchy...
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