Hypothesis.
Everytime I say it, it comes out as “Hypothethithith”…hmm.
I just recently learned to roll my tongue(Spanish-esque). Does that count?
I’ve discovered I can’t say “inherited it” without adding an extra “it” on the end. My mom has a similar problem with “Little Italy”, adding an extra “ittle” in the middle.
Worcestershire Sauce
Eutychus
Massachu… Massa… I can’t even spell it! The state with Boston in it. Can’t say it, can’t spell it. One of my nightmares involves making it to Jeopardy, and then having an answer with that as the question.
There are some words I can use easily in conversation, but when I read aloud, I feel like I have to pronounce them the way they are spelled. The example that leaps to mind it “facade”. Speaking from my head, no problem. Reading it? I want to say it “fack-ade”.
That thing that checks blood pressure - Sthphignamometer…whatever!!!
Band name alert!: 'Nuclear Sphincter"
I can’t think of any off the top of my head, when it comes to myself, but I used to have a friend who pronounced milk as melk.
Uvula.
Ahem: clarification.
As mentioned elsewhere on the GQ board recently: That’s NOT “a spelling for English readers.” It’s the Pinyin spelling system which is the People’s Republic of China’s own attempt at using Roman characters as phonetics for their own language. Their rules. We could’a gone on using a “spelling for English readers” but they asked nice.
quiesce
he he? he!
I have a nasty habit of speaking too quickly, but I do have to consciously slow down if I’m saying “orange juice” in a sentence.
“Sixths” is no problem for me because I cheat. I think I pronounce it “sixts”. I think a lot of other people do this too.
You know what word sucks? Rural. I can’t pronounce that for the life of me.
hmm… none of the words in this thread are hard for me, but I swear if I see “photography” written, I say it “photo - graphy” like a big ole retard.
I’m the same way. A few months ago I was dating a girl that couldn’t pronounce it either. Whenever it would come up in conversation, we’d just get stuck saying “rururururuururur…” ad nauseum.
I also can’t pronounce, in a sentence at least, “statistics.” I have to slow down and enunciate every… last… syllable.
My own friggin name. Martina. I hate introducing myself. Somewhere between the “m” and the “r” my tongue gets balled up. I can say Artina no problem, but add the “m” and it affects the “r”, which is a hard consonant for me anyway. Stupid American “r”. Then, of course the person I’m talking to can’t understand what I just said so I have to repeat it…
And yes, “rural” sucks too.
I’m a native speaker of American English, so I don’t know why it’s so hard – except that my mom is German, so I may have gotten the impediment from hearing her say my name and other “r” words with an accent.
Also:
“edited it”.
It usually comes out OK, but it sounds so weird that I do a double take every time.
rivulus (which I can pronounce)
Oh, and another one,
The name ROY
I look and feel like I"ve had a stroke when I say that name…
Am I the only one who has trouble with “directory”?
Hubby is constantly correcting my “q-pon” to “cooo-pon”. I guess I’m just one of those bilingual rural gals with a quiescent uvula, that has never been to Massachusetts, likes Worcestershire sauce and horseradish, and prefers her pie divided into sixths. 
I can almost never pronounce “llama” correctly. Then again, “sixths” is pretty bad also.
If you have trouble with the American pronunciation of the first word, try the British one: “woostasha” (stress on the first syllable)