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I don’t pronounce every bit of the real word; something like tempra-chure. Is that OK?
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Yes - it’s okay because you put the “r” in it, and don’t add an “i”.
THERE IS NO I IN TEMPERATURE.
[QUOTE=tvvat]
I remember being in line during elementary and one of the little snot nosed country bumpkins that I grew up with poked her head up and whined “Do we HAVE to go to libary?” to which I turned round and corrected “You’re sposed to say ‘the libRary’.” In response she tried to correct me. I rarely run into someone who bastardizes library like that, but when I do I can feel the grade three rage bubbling up within me again.
I do all the problys, tempichures, rurrls, and ah-munnas but Albertans are regarded as being very quick speakers, a stereotype which I exacerbate. If I’m in a formal setting or doing some public speaking, the Queen’s English comes out.
Mind you, I’ve got an Australian immigrant father, and a Canadian mother, so maybe I’ve always been more mindful of pronunciation.
Oh wait, I just realized that I bastardize Calgary into Cal-gree. That’s a true test of a native Calgarian though, much the same way a Vancouverite says Vangcouver.
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Sorry. I’m a liberrian. I work at tha liberry. Can’t help it.
And I also can’t say or spell that person who plays the piano with you when you sing.
How’s come of all the golfers in the world the only one I can’t pronounce is the only one with a tasty beverage?
Vulnerable.
Panties comes out pannies.
[QUOTE=gigi]
I don’t pronounce every bit of the real word; something like tempra-chure. Is that OK?
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I think this is in the same class as “comfortable”. At some point in college, I started pronouncing the word properly, and people point and laugh.
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
I have a lot of dialect and accent related issues (horror/whore, jewelry/jury, pin/pen/peeing), but there are some phrases I just trip over every time. “Long Island Iced Tea” and “Arnold Palmer” are two.
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I have trouble pronouncing LIIT after four or five of them, myself.
[QUOTE=Mouse_Maven]
Here’s my list:
Any derivation of specific
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I had a boss who pronounced this word “pacific”. Drove me nuckin’ futts.
Proselytize and molybdenum.
[QUOTE=Astroboy14]
For me it’s “phenomenon”… it’s not that I can’t pronounce it, it’s that I can’t help but say “doo-doo-de-doo-doot” in my head right afterwards, and it always throws me off what I was saying.
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When I visit my brother, I drive past a town named Menominee. I’ve found it impossible to read the sign without doing the “doo-doo-dee-dah-doo-doot” in my head and almost impossible to not sing it out loud. But, since my fiance hates when I do it, I try very hard not to when she’s in the car (sometimes I succeed).
[QUOTE=Omega Glory]
Proselytize and molybdenum.
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I’ve always seen that as moly-bendium. And it doesn’t help that most cheap tools are made out of it.
“Screw Extractor.” Thank God I’ve only had to go into a hardware store once in my life to buy such a thing and after embarrassing myself trying to explain what I was looking for, I’ll never do it again.
My MIL says “flustrated.”
She’s either trying to say “frustrated” or “flustered.”
She’s English, if that makes a difference. 
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
Worst mistake was ‘ravishing’ for ‘ravenous’. There’s just no way anybody lets you get off when you proclaim that you’re stunning when all you want’s a sandwich.
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“Culinary delights” doesn’t mean what I thought it did. …and now I’m no longer welcome at Olive Garden… 
Aaaaaht: the painting with the melting clocks by Dali is considered aaaaaht. I hate that word.
Litchacha, lithchatchu: easier to just say books and stuff. Litrrrrrly isn’t any easier either.
Paaaahdon: why don’t I just say excuse me?
As you can see, I struggle a bit pronouncing the ‘r’ in some words.
[QUOTE=RetroVertigo]
My wife instead of saying breakfast says something like Brekfrist for which she gets teased.
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If you come back RetroVertigo, where is your wife from? Long ago, my SO pointed out that I do the exact same thing (he teased me too) and talking to my sister, so does she. Neither of my parents do, so we don’t know where it came from?
I grew up in Minnesota.
I like pancakes for brekfrist.
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
Sorry. I’m a liberrian. I work at tha liberry. Can’t help it.
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And I’m a librarian who usually says /libry/ – just two syllables.
[QUOTE=LifeOnWry]
Or Montgomery Ward. Too many Rs and Ws too close to one another.
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There’s a fairly major thoroughfare in Salt Lake named Redwood Road. It almost always comes out as “Wedwood Woad”.
One of the local furniture dealers tries to make a play on this in their advertising, but totally misses the point. They say they’re located on “Road Redwood–I mean Redwood Road–I mean…”
[QUOTE=tvvat]
That’s a true test of a native Calgarian though, much the same way a Vancouverite says Vangcouver.
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I’ve never been within 1000 miles of Vancouver, but if someone said “Van - coo - ver” I’d assume that English was their second language.
I mean, you don’t pronounce trunk “trun - k”, but rather “trungk”, right? Unless you mean something totally different by “Vangcouver”
[QUOTE=ivylass]
My MIL says “flustrated.”
She’s either trying to say “frustrated” or “flustered.”
She’s English, if that makes a difference. 
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“Flustrated” is listed in my unabridged Merriam-Webster.
Although I’m generally not a mumbler, for some reason “wolf” likes to come out of my mouth as “wuff”. I had an ex who would always giggle after this mispronunciation and it would take me a moment or two to realize what was so dang hilarious. Now, I’m acutely aware of it and unless I’ve been drinking, my sentences will go something like this: “I really liked 300 but that CGI…(long pause while I think about the word in my head)…‘wollllllf’ looked too cartoonish.”
I always want to pronounce con-spi-cu-ous as con-spi-cious. I don’t know why. My friend thinks it’s because I associate the word with suspicious. :dubious:
Prolly, foe-urd, and temp-uh-chure are my most common ones. (Until this thread I never realized that temp-uh-chure was incorrect). I also say lash-vicious for lascivious – fortunately that one doesn’t come up very often.
But my all time worst is Pay for Performance. I was on a committee at work to discuss…that topic, which is how I started referring it to it. I’d have to tell people, “I have to go to a meeting now about that thing I can’t say.” I can’t explain exactly how I pronounced it, but it’s sort of like “pay for pthhhpthh” Interestingly, I can pronounce performance on its own just fine, but the “for” in front of it messes me up completely.
Nuk-U-Ler