This is what gets me every time and I don't know why. It's not hard to say or spell, but when I see it in print it hits my brain pronounced as:
"Hyper bowl"
Hyperbole!
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Are There Any Words That You Have A Hard Time Pronouncing or Spelling?
by minimus 51 Replies latest jw friends
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nelly136
i was about 30 something before i realised the place spelt Wrotham which makes perfect sense to me to read and pronounce as rotham was pronounced rootam, i only realised after one of my friends said get off at the rootam junction and then had a pissy fit cos we ended up stuck on the m25.
i always thought it was some mysterious place that everyone talked about that i'd never been to.
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tec
Melancholy
I had never heard this word spoken out loud. I had only ever read it in books, and so in my head I pronounced it 'mel-ank-oly'. One day I was trying to tell my sister that I felt 'mel-ank-oly'. She frowned, and I repeated a couple of times... until she burst out laughing and corrected me. To compound my embarrassment, my sister is a teenage know-it-all (I speak with great love and affection here) and half my age!
Tammy
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White Dove
Siboleth
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Mythbuster
aluminum
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stillin
lisp
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A.Fenderson
You mean aluminium? ;-)
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White Dove
Isn't someone gonna kill me?
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Heartbreaker
I have a daughter that can't say cinnamon to save her life.....but I really can't think of a word that trips me up. I would tell you what I have a hard time spelling, but I can't spell it. That's embarrassing.
I also knew a whole group of elders in my old hall that couldn't say Revelation. It was always Revelations. Drove.Me.Crazy. They also axed a lot of questions. Wonder when they'll axe me from the stage?
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Outaservice
hors d' oeuvres
Weimaraner
Alzheimer's
Polyps
Colonoscopy
and finally..........The