What words tie your tongue in knots when you try to say them?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I just looked up the word synonym to make sure I was spelling it correctly (it never looks right to me), and saw the other usages at the bottom, one of which was synonymical.

I’m cracking myself up trying to pronounce it.

I can hear in my head how it should sound, but my mouth just can’t get it out. To make matters worse, I’ve been struggling with it for the past few minutes and now the word seems to be complete gibberish. The more I try the worse it gets, and the harder I laugh.

Another one is superfluous. I always read it as two words, super and fluous, but when I begin to pronounce it that way, I know it’s wrong and my tongue gets tied trying to say it correctly.

So, what words always leave you babbling like a drunkard?

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Something like “generally”. I always have trouble with that word.

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“Rural.”

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“stastistics”

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colloquial

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patented

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“Rodriguez”

I end up sounding like a second grader with a listp trying to read an unfamiliar word: “Rodweegwes” :smack:

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Don’t waste your time trying to pronounce a nonexistent word. Try “statistics” instead.

Many people have trouble with “asterisk,” missing the second “s”.

Not me. :slight_smile:

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Wario (Mario’s evil counterpart in Nintendo games). Mario never caused me any problems, but this comes out as “Wawio”. I had an entire room in uproar the first time I said it. From now on he’s just “Mario’s Evil Twin”

Exhibition took me a long time to crack, and I know I ain’t the only one.

Corollary I’ve always pronounced it “Koral-ree” in my mind, but it’s “Kor-ol-la-ree”. I guess I don’t expect such a short word to have four syllables.

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You know that joke about Chinese people trying to serve flied lice?

Yeah.

(This, despite my American accent. The good news is it’s only happened once, but my friends have never let me live it down.)

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Um, I know - the speech marks were to indicate that’s how I usually end up saying statistics :smack:

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Statute. I leave off the last t. This wouldn’t be a problem, except that it’s a word I have to say pretty much daily at work.

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Onomatopoeia.

Every. Single. Freaking. Time. :smack:

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The French word association. Ass-suss-yass-yaw.

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Comfortable.

The weird thing is that I only get tongue-tied if I think about how to say it before trying to say it. If I just use it in a sentence without thinking I’m fine.

I used to not get colonial, until a field trip to colonial Williamsburg cleared that up. (I said “conolial”. )

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That was a 4th grade field trip, by the way.

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Frank Lloyd Wright. I can’t for the life of me not insert an extra “f” or two in there.

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I always get caught on the second “L”.

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Stethoscope, catharsis, surreptitiously, preternaturally, fastidiousness, and more.

I have problems!

~Miakoda~

first post, hi ya’ll!

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cloths and clothes.