Khaaaaaaaaaaaaain!
Certain words with both an ‘R’ and a ‘W’ in them. Brewery is one. I work in the town of Brunswick. I can say it just fine, as long as I don’t think about it. If I stop and think, it’ll come out either “Bwunswick” or “Brunsrick”. I have to say it every time I answer the damn phone at work, too. Doesn’t help that the next word I have to say begins with an ‘R’, either!
Rural and virulent. It’s the damn r’s in both words that get me, but virulent is the toughest for me for some reason.
Worse than fifths?
I struggle with certain combinations of w & r, and of all of them, I think the word “brewery” is the most evil. I trip over it in my own head almost as badly as I do trying to say it out loud.
My husband had to give me a trick so that I could say “lily.” I still have to say it a bit slowly.
I don’t know why it comes up so often, but I can’t ever remember how to say “emu.” Eemoo? eemyoo? I can look it up but the next time, I still won’t know. “Big bird.”
And Bugs Bunny has gotten to me so that I struggle to remember if it’s strategy or stragety.
Prostelicize or whatever that stupid word is that means people are trying to sell you their religion. Hate that word. Proselytize. Yeah, I always want to make it “prost-----”
Sixth
Germans cannot pronounce “squirrel”. Americans cannot pronounce the German word for squirrel, “eichhoernchen”.
Just seemed like the right time for that.
I often hear people speaking of “periphial” vision, leaving out the second “r” when they attempt to pronounce the word “peripheral.”
Pronounciation.