Damn It! I can't ever seem to say/spell that word!!

[MPAsquared]

Do you have a word or 2 you always screw up? Can't seem to pronounce or spell it right?

Mine are:

1. Cinnamon - ciminmin, cinnimin, sinamon, cinninimimin, blah!

2. Anomoly - anonaly, anomonaly, enominaly, whatever lol!

3. Statistic - stastistic, stastisctic, stasstistic, Fml!

 

[red]

Yes I can't say alligator, luckily it doesn't come up very often

 

[Celticman]

Can never pronounce MPAsquared. I wish her name was Mary. Or Jane.

 

[Marla]

Most people say nucular instead of nuclear. Inpite of instead of despite and there are a ton more.

 

[gcostanza]

I have trouble pronouncing 'Philadelphia'.

 

[bolt.upright]

Not so much a pronunciation thing, but I hate when someone says "all of the sudden". It's "all of a sudden" people!

 

[asuran]

For me, off the top of my head I'm thinking of these two:

Necessary (Tho usually i correct myself, I hesitate when I write this, I question myself if i had mixed up the positions of the soft 'c' and the 's' at times)
Unequivocally (I stumble pronouncing this as well, pronounce it as 'unequivacly')

 

[Mr Bret]

Spelling words that are similar in French and English.
One of the disadvantages of being bilingual is that sometimes the wrong version pops up, and it's worse when you have a French keyboard.

One example is address vs adresse.
Usually once I see it typed out, I see the mistake.

One word a number of my friends have a hard time saying is alimony. It has nothing to do with the spelling or pronunciation, but they just always seem to choke on it. :frusty:

 

[jcpro]

Permanent-permament
Stop the "short period of time" madness.

 

[asuran]

2. Anomoly - anonaly, anomonaly, enominaly, whatever lol!

Also, isn't it suppose to be anomaly.

 

[spraggamuffin]

Many words with double letters like .

Massachusetts is hard for me to pronounce .

Words like Caribbean,beginning, accomodation etc can be hard to spell where sometimes you are not sure whether it's the r's or the b's, C's or the m's that should be double, or whether it's one n or two n's etc

 

[skinnyguy]

SPs (and others) that try to seem worldly but don't know the difference between discrete and discreet.

 

[bolt.upright]

SPs (and others) that try to seem worldly but don't know the difference between discrete and discreet.

I used to have to look that one up all the time myself.

 

[Mr Bret]

Do you have a word or 2 you always screw up? Can't seem to pronounce or spell it right?

Mine are:

1. Cinnamon - ciminmin, cinnimin, sinamon, cinninimimin, blah!

2. Anomoly - anonaly, anomonaly, enominaly, whatever lol!

3. Statistic - stastistic, stastisctic, stasstistic, Fml!

Statistics would probably show that it's not an anomaly for people to have trouble with the word cinnamon.

 

[MPAsquared]

I have the bilingual issue too. I spell words in french often. That's what u get for 13yrs of french immersion. Lol.

 

[Mr Bret]

I have the bilingual issue too. I spell words in french often. That's what u get for 13yrs of french immersion. Lol.

Backwards sentence structure is another curse of the French/English thing.

"I spell words in French often" or "I often spell words in French".

As long as you kiss the French way, it's all good.

 

[sinc]

"For all intensive purposes."

 

[MissCroft]

Many people say supposably, when in fact it is pronounced supposedly.

When people pronounce the 'b' after the 'p' it is because of place assimilation. Both bilabial consonants. It is more natural for the mouth to stay at the same place (a P to a B) than moving to a D.

 

[bemeup]

Not a mispronounciation, but I've been looking at apartment rental ads on BP and Craigslist lately, and about 50% of the time "quiet" is mispelled as "quite". Also, alot of the ads spell Yonge St. as Young St.

 

[Spacealien2]

Probability - probrruhlwlrity

Fried rice - flied wice.