Yes - it’s okay because you put the “r” in it, and don’t add an “i”.
THERE IS NO I IN TEMPERATURE.
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.
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.
I have trouble pronouncing LIIT after four or five of them, myself.
I had a boss who pronounced this word “pacific”. Drove me nuckin’ futts.
Proselytize and molybdenum.
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).
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.
“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.
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.
And I’m a librarian who usually says /libry/ – just two syllables.
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…”
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”
“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