What word/s can you NOT pronounce no matter how hard you try?
I have a terrible time with the word
effeminate…
So I just leave it alone…
My daughter just kills me because she pronounces the word
“pattern” as pat ter run
It drives me crazy!!!
Sixths.
The worst word to pronounce in the whole English language. I taught grade school math for a year and I dreaded fractions for this very reason.
YOU WIN JOMO!!!
I forgot about that word! It IS the worst!!!
It should be banned from the English language. 
There’s a Stephin Merrit side project, a band that calls itself “The 6ths”. He did it on purpose, I know he did, because he called one album “Hyancinths and Thistles” and the other album “Wasp’s Nest.” Try saying all that crap and you just want to punch his conceited face.
I’m still not sure how to pronouce “banal” because I’ve heard it both ways.
And I have trouble saying “bilingual.” I always end up say “bi-LING-gue-el”
If it’s in a sentence I can’t pronounce chaos. No matter how hard I try I always manage to pronounce it ‘chay-ohs’.
~Kittie
When I was young I could never get “remember” to come out right. I always wound up mumbling it into oblivion. So I gave up trying to say it and substituted “recall.”
sphincter.
nuclear.
…and I cannot say “toy boat” even once, let alone three times.
I had a teacher who couldn’t say ‘breakfast’ - it always came out ‘BEK-frust’ - she was really self concious about it, she KNEW she was mispronouncing it and said her tongue couldn’t do what her brain told it to do. She always tactfully referred to it as ‘the morning meal’.
NP: Bruce Dickenson - The Chemical Wedding
percular(hell I don’t even know if I spelled it right)
I have NEVER, in my life, been able to say the name Loretta Lynn correctly.
The one that comes off the top of my head is: Horseradish.
It comes out: Horsh Rahdisch
“proprietary”
I don’t know exactly how it comes out but it’s a safe but that it’ll be wrong most of the time.
I’m not sure that I’d put those two words together for ANY reason 
I can never decide if “fire” should really come out as two syllables or not, so I always trip over it. I know that the dictionary says that it’s one syllable, but doesn’t everyone pronounce it with two?
My 6th grade social studies teacher used to pronounce “false” as “faults”. The whole class would erupt into giggles whenever he gave an oral “true or false” quiz. Poor guy.
I always have trouble with “Worcestershire”. When I try and say it, it sounds like I’m chewing on peanut butter.
“Everything”
The word, that is. The th sound is awkward to us. And then there’s that soft rrrr. Never comes out right.
Awkward is a strange word as well, but not difficult to pronounce.
pronounce… 
Yeah, but we’ll probably think it’s cute when you say evedyt’ing. I’ll bet you guys spend hours laughing at people who try to correctly pronounce Vincent Van HHHHHHHHoHHHHHH’s name.
Nope. We’d think it cute as well.
In a couple of years we’ll probably pronounce it your way. We are always a bit behind here.
The thing that doctor’s use to check your heartbeat: stehescope(?) That word was created just to piss me off; I can’t spell or pronounce it!
Schadenfreude.
Xingjiang. As in Gao Xingjiang, Nobel Prize winner for literature.
I posted this on another list - why is it spelled this way? with the “Xi”? The Chinese don’t spell it that way - they use pictograms. This is a spelling for English readers, so why not spell it like it sounds?? Is this some pedantic asshole trick on us, or is there a plausible excuse?