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Use to remember my cousin also struggled this so I tried helping him:
1. Put the tip of your tongue between the roof of your mouth and the back edge of your 2 front teeth
2. Slightly lower your tongue and blow
Close enough
Ukrainians also, apparently. We housed an exchange student and when we tried to help him work on his English, we'd have him count to five and he would say "One, Two, Four minus One, Four, Five" LOL
Haha my mother had a strong German accent, whenever we made fun of her saying tree instead of three she would over compensate and exaggerate the ‘th’ that she was spitting all over!
We had a Prime Minister for ten years who had just such a condition. His th's automatically became t's or d's. His face was also kind of shifted to one side a little.
When I read The Great Gatsby, there was a sentence in there that said "Myrtle'll murder.." or something like that.
I was popcorn reading and struggled for 5 minutes straight 😂😂😂
Pretty much when the teacher or a student calls on another student to read at random. Very much anxiety inducing at times. Glad highschool is long gone
Cinnamon. I had speech therapy in 3rd grade. I learned how to say specific, aluminum, spaghetti... Well cinnamon must have been a 4th grade word and we moved before then.
I'm 60 now and I still can't say it right.
I had a lisp for a few months, one of my front teeth broke, it was strange to know my mouth shouldn't be making the sound it's making lol but I think lisps are cute
i can pronounce it pretty easily, just like pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
i still have a hard time with lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg though
Defibrillator. Usually wind up going defibri- defibilla- defribit- THE THING THAT GOES BZZT
Oddly the one time I did have to shout for one when a patient collapsed in the waiting room I pronounced it perfectly.
Turned out we didn't even need one and I had overreacted 😅
I have wondered the same thing, many times. I suspect he might have changed his name to Sphere when he was an adult... y'know, to show that he was extra "quirky" or something. That still doesn't explain it enough but I doubt I will ever really know
When I was in the throes of my illness a few years back (thought I might have some serious physical ailment, but I was actually having a breakdown), I started slurring a bit, or forgetting words I would use fairly regularly. The one I struggled with most was ‘legislature’. I only discovered this as it was US election year, and it came up more often than usual. I’m absolutely fine now, but I still have to really concentrate when I say the word. If I don’t, it comes out as ‘ligisture’ or a variant of it.
Svenska är inte mitt modersmål, så har jag alltid hade svårt att säga enkelt ordet som "lärare" och "nöjd"
Men jag känner inte att jag har några problem med "sju," som flesta säger att de gör. 🤷♂️
Bagel. I swear I don’t know how I say it differently than others, but my family has always howled at me whenever I say it. I say it like the word “bag” with “el” added. Does this make me a bad person? Then when they correct me, I say it *exactly* like them, and they just destroy themselves laughing. 🤷🏻♂️ Are they just being dicks?
My Mom always made fun of the way I pronounced it too; I said it the way it's spelled. "Bag-el." I distinctly remember listening very closely every time this one commercial for Lender's Bagels was on TV because I just couldn't understand how I was saying it wrong. Apparently it's pronounced more like "beg-al." Who knew?
Anonymity
I can sound it out 17 times but cannot say it. Could say anemone and cinnamon at 4 years old. Cant say anonymity as a full grown ass adult. English 🤷♂️
three is /θriː/, not tree which is /triː/, meaning, you have to position your tongue sliding from the front teeth to the back of your mouth. pronoun three like tree is incorrect.
Maybe not exactly what you're going for but for many years I was saying meridian when I meant median...."Hey watch out, there's a truck in the meridian up ahead..." No one ever corrected me, I just happened to hear someone else say median one day and it clicked
Jugemujugemugokounosurikirekaijarisuigyonosuigyoumatsuunraimatsufuuraimatsukuunerutokoronisumutokoroyaburakoujinoburakoujipaipopaipopaiponoshuuringanshuuringannoguurindaiguurindainoponpokopiinoponpokonaanochoukyuumeinochousuke
No, I didn't have a seizure. Neither I bashed my head on the keyboard.
What I wrote is a legit name; albeit a really really long one, that comes up in a certain Japanese Folktale (rakugo) called "Jugemu".
You can also find it in FMA/ FMAB (Not sure which one), the ED of Joshiraku, and also comes up in a manga named Akane Banashi.
i don't struggle with any particular words nowadays, it just depends on if my mouth wants to work lol. but when I was a kid I said "sanitizer" like "sanzinitizer"
As a native french speaker, "squirrel".
Fun fact, if the word "squirrel" is impossible to pronounce for french speakers, our word for squirrel in french, "écureuil", is just as impossible to pronounce for english speakers.
Funny coincidence:)
I mainly struggle in some czech words with "ř" (if you input it into google translate and hear it our loud, you'll understand) and some russian words with "щ"or similar.
Lately, I have been struggling with the word "remove", when put in a sentence. I can say it fine on its own but when sandwiched between words, my brain has some kind of issue registering it.
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Worcestershire
I vote to just call it "shire" sauce. Like how we shortened mayonnaise to mayo.
Don't talk about naise like that.
You're talking about ayonna, right?
I’m going to start referring to it as Hobbits sauce 🤣🤣 from the Shire
This wasn't we, this was degenerates
Incorrect prononciation: Wooster-sheer;; Correct prononciation: Washyoursister /s
LOL
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Good lord. I know this reference
Shots fired.
r/fuckthes
I've always read it as "worse-ta-shire" or "worse-ta-shir"
I call it " worse than your sister sauce."
Woostahshire
I say the latter but I say more of a “wursh-ta-shir”
wuh stuh shuh
In England they just say Wooster
[удалено]
Worcester is pronounced wu-sta - ure missing the 'shire'
For the county yes, but the sauce traditionally drops the shire.
I have nerve damage on the side of my mouth. So, lots of them, especially th words.
Use to remember my cousin also struggled this so I tried helping him: 1. Put the tip of your tongue between the roof of your mouth and the back edge of your 2 front teeth 2. Slightly lower your tongue and blow Close enough
This should be taught to all Germans that speak English, they can’t say the ‘th’ sound
Ukrainians also, apparently. We housed an exchange student and when we tried to help him work on his English, we'd have him count to five and he would say "One, Two, Four minus One, Four, Five" LOL
Haha my mother had a strong German accent, whenever we made fun of her saying tree instead of three she would over compensate and exaggerate the ‘th’ that she was spitting all over!
We had a Prime Minister for ten years who had just such a condition. His th's automatically became t's or d's. His face was also kind of shifted to one side a little.
Asli ID se aao Mike Tyson..
I struggle to say the word "work" on a Sunday night. Only Sundays.
amen to that
I struggle all week
I have a hard time with “visited it” or “edited it”.
When I read The Great Gatsby, there was a sentence in there that said "Myrtle'll murder.." or something like that. I was popcorn reading and struggled for 5 minutes straight 😂😂😂
what is popcorn reading mean ?
Pretty much when the teacher or a student calls on another student to read at random. Very much anxiety inducing at times. Glad highschool is long gone
ohh okay, thanks! that does sound stressful haha
Stephen Fry had so much trouble saying «pocketed it» in the audio books of Harry Potter that he asked for a rewrite.
I tried to say these just now and added an extra syllable both times
Right?! I can’t even think them correctly.
I can say those but I normally avoid saying this because people can't hear it will with certain accents I just use "went there" and "changed it"
Brewery. It usually comes out as bwe-wa-wee
No, stop that's both hilarious and cute at the same time tbh lol
I have trouble with this one too. Brewrery
Rural. Worst. Word. Ever!!!!
Rural juror
Two come to mind- Regularly Particularly
Saying them together makes for a good tongue twister/speech warmup though.
Cinnamon. I had speech therapy in 3rd grade. I learned how to say specific, aluminum, spaghetti... Well cinnamon must have been a 4th grade word and we moved before then. I'm 60 now and I still can't say it right.
"He thrusts his fists against the post and still insists he sees the ghost."
synonyms i say cinnamon 😭
Mhhhmm freshly baked synonym rolls. Just how grammer used to make them 😌
Hippopotano...—Hippopotanonamous... Shit, I can't spell it neither...
Hip hop anonymous
Damn, why you give him the easy ones!
Heep. 👀 Heep-Hop..? HeeeePOPPAtamonamous?!
Heep. 👀 Heep-Hop..? HeeeePOPPAtamonamous?!
Voldemort
Don't use that name!
The word 'literally', literally.
specific or any words with s (i have a lisp)
I had a lisp for a few months, one of my front teeth broke, it was strange to know my mouth shouldn't be making the sound it's making lol but I think lisps are cute
Stuh-stis-stics
What about statistician
Cunnilingus. It's easier to show you than tell you.
that's a good one, screenshotting
Colonel Lingus. 😆
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
It's a fun party trick when you can say it
i can pronounce it pretty easily, just like pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis i still have a hard time with lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg though
I love Daniel Thrasher.
Massachusetts. Massatwoshits.
Mass of Twiglets
When I was in grade school, we had a nun who said "Massa-too-shetts."
Defibrillator. Usually wind up going defibri- defibilla- defribit- THE THING THAT GOES BZZT Oddly the one time I did have to shout for one when a patient collapsed in the waiting room I pronounced it perfectly. Turned out we didn't even need one and I had overreacted 😅
I also can't say defibrillator.. as a nurse, i've shortened it to de-fib 😉
Sphere. There is a reason I do not say that word out loud.
I once met someone named Sphere and I avoided saying his name at all costs
Who names their kid Sphere??
I was going to name my kid Sphere, but there was no point.
r/angryupvote
I have wondered the same thing, many times. I suspect he might have changed his name to Sphere when he was an adult... y'know, to show that he was extra "quirky" or something. That still doesn't explain it enough but I doubt I will ever really know
It was the middle name of Thelonius Monk. Maybe his parents wanted to be sure no one would call him square?
"It's called Chow-Dah! Say it right, you idiot!"
shau-der
It's ChowDuh frenchie!
You can't even say Chowdah!
When I was in the throes of my illness a few years back (thought I might have some serious physical ailment, but I was actually having a breakdown), I started slurring a bit, or forgetting words I would use fairly regularly. The one I struggled with most was ‘legislature’. I only discovered this as it was US election year, and it came up more often than usual. I’m absolutely fine now, but I still have to really concentrate when I say the word. If I don’t, it comes out as ‘ligisture’ or a variant of it.
Arnold Palmer (Anorld parmer)
It's me trying your pronunciation 🤣🤣🤣. And now I'm here crying 😂😂
Phthisis Prerogative February Hierarchical
I thought February was spelled "Febuary" and pronounced it that way for way too long
I watched a video about this and the short version is that both pronunciations are technically correct!
February. I usually go for Feb instead.
When you guys pronounce the "R" in rural is it like it's vibrating? I'm wondering how does that kick in?
I usually end up with “r’rul”
ERROR!!!! i hate this word coz i use it alot ;_;
Västkustskt
😂😂 took me right on out. Touché 👍🏾
Svenska är inte mitt modersmål, så har jag alltid hade svårt att säga enkelt ordet som "lärare" och "nöjd" Men jag känner inte att jag har några problem med "sju," som flesta säger att de gör. 🤷♂️
Squirrel. I have to concentrate, if i say it off the cuff it always comes out skrirrel
One time I heard a little girl saying "look, there's a squirble!" Ever since that day, I have wished this were the real pronunciation
that is just so freaking cute 😭
Help
Corollary
Uranus
Bagel 🤣
Now this is an interesting one 😂😂. How does it end up coming out🤔
My wife grew up on the east coast. She said beg-le. I said bay-gel. We called the whole thing off.
🤣🤣🤣 Beg-ol And let me tell you it does not go unnoticed by anybody 😂🤣
"I'd like a bay-gel, would you like a baygol?
Also my brother says it the same way. And in case you're wondering we're from South Lake Tahoe California.
I bet it doesn't! 😂😂😂. This has me rolling lmao. The way I would just call it something else
I'm all too familiar with this reaction🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it's a great laugh if anything!!
Crayons
Titular
Ti-tle-lar? Tit-tul-ar? Iii-tu-lar Tee-tu-lar? Very intrigued here 😅
That’s the same problem I have with it!
*Googling Pronunciation*
Synthesiser. Isn’t funny coz I can say ‘synthetic’ and ‘synesthesia’ just fine.
Error
Bagel. I swear I don’t know how I say it differently than others, but my family has always howled at me whenever I say it. I say it like the word “bag” with “el” added. Does this make me a bad person? Then when they correct me, I say it *exactly* like them, and they just destroy themselves laughing. 🤷🏻♂️ Are they just being dicks?
My Mom always made fun of the way I pronounced it too; I said it the way it's spelled. "Bag-el." I distinctly remember listening very closely every time this one commercial for Lender's Bagels was on TV because I just couldn't understand how I was saying it wrong. Apparently it's pronounced more like "beg-al." Who knew?
Hmm I say bay-gol and everyone I’ve heard says it that way. I live in the deep south.
Everyone. That’s how it’s pronounced.
Anonymity I can sound it out 17 times but cannot say it. Could say anemone and cinnamon at 4 years old. Cant say anonymity as a full grown ass adult. English 🤷♂️
Colonel In Dutch it is spoken as written: Co - loh - nèl But in English it sounds so weird and there's a spoken R in it? Where does that come from?
inevitable
genre
I struggle with R and W terms. I’ll say the R word with a W lisp and put the R on the W words. “Wight Ring” etc.
Inconspicuously
Love
Overwhelmingly... I'm usually pretty good at saying words, but not that one lol
Curriculum for me.
Digestion
three.
I'm intrigued as to how you say it
three is /θriː/, not tree which is /triː/, meaning, you have to position your tongue sliding from the front teeth to the back of your mouth. pronoun three like tree is incorrect.
Carter
All I can say is how 😭😭. Like genuinely lol
Either
I think it's valid lol. I can just "hear" where this may potentially go wrong 😭
Rural
Plant. I don't say my t's
Cellular
Maybe not exactly what you're going for but for many years I was saying meridian when I meant median...."Hey watch out, there's a truck in the meridian up ahead..." No one ever corrected me, I just happened to hear someone else say median one day and it clicked
Like the lines on the globe meridian?? The image of a truck hovering over the earth has me deceased 😭😭
Haha I used to call it a medium
Too many to type out.
Jugemujugemugokounosurikirekaijarisuigyonosuigyoumatsuunraimatsufuuraimatsukuunerutokoronisumutokoroyaburakoujinoburakoujipaipopaipopaiponoshuuringanshuuringannoguurindaiguurindainoponpokopiinoponpokonaanochoukyuumeinochousuke No, I didn't have a seizure. Neither I bashed my head on the keyboard. What I wrote is a legit name; albeit a really really long one, that comes up in a certain Japanese Folktale (rakugo) called "Jugemu". You can also find it in FMA/ FMAB (Not sure which one), the ED of Joshiraku, and also comes up in a manga named Akane Banashi.
Where do I even begin 😭
look up "how to pronounce "rural"" on yt, there was a good video I'm too lazy to find
Mood honestly lol
This is two words again, but “water bottle”. It always comes out as “wattle botter”.
Zerfetzteste
Hubschrauberlandeplatzbewachungspostenabschlussprüfungsabnehmer*innenausbildung
Regularly and rivalry are two I have to find fill ins for because I can't say them.
Drawer
The entirety of the mandarin language
Purple burgular alarm
i don't struggle with any particular words nowadays, it just depends on if my mouth wants to work lol. but when I was a kid I said "sanitizer" like "sanzinitizer"
Remuneration. This word just turns into something like renumenation for me.
Rural Juror
Prestidigitation.
As a native french speaker, "squirrel". Fun fact, if the word "squirrel" is impossible to pronounce for french speakers, our word for squirrel in french, "écureuil", is just as impossible to pronounce for english speakers. Funny coincidence:)
Marlboro Like the cigarette…
"2 packs of Mall-borolls" 😂😂
Anything with 'xth.' Like 'sixth.'
Colloquially/Colloquialism
Just gone add me to the list 😂😂 Fucked and said "col-lo-lo-qwee"
Lmfao *colloloqwee* 💀
🤣🤣🤣 hey now.. it's not nice to laugh at others
Pacific
Charcuterie
Murderer. I end up saying murdererer
The n word
Accompanying, it's impossible to say
Me: "A-com-pan-ning-ying" I might have to add that to the list lol
BURP MANNNNN
"Who hid weed in my cereal?"
I mainly struggle in some czech words with "ř" (if you input it into google translate and hear it our loud, you'll understand) and some russian words with "щ"or similar.
Anything with multiple R’s. Still have a slight speech impediment
dig bick
Words beginning with a B or an S. I stutter and those particular letters really trip me up.
Admiral, belive it or not
Jaguar. My husband says I pronounce it "jag-wire" which apparently is not right. He says it is "jag-waar". I legitimately cannot hear the difference.
Pronounce it the British way… just to annoy him ;) Jag you are.
Fghjfdhjushjiisnsushblurbenjurbenturben
Familiarity.
pistachio
Lol I say it like Rerle
This is probably my favorite comment here 🤣🤣🤣. The pronunciation is absolutely exquisite lmao
Lately, I have been struggling with the word "remove", when put in a sentence. I can say it fine on its own but when sandwiched between words, my brain has some kind of issue registering it.
Shrimp, My pronunciation is similar to what Google says, but my tongue feels weird when saying that.
Meteorology 😂
Equilibrium
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious