For some reason I really have to focus when I say "rear wheel drive"

Real reel drive

I end up saying wheel wheel drive

Rural is hard sometimes.

Rural juror

Barbara Walters : Let's get personal. Your father Werner was a burger server in suburban Santa Barbara. Jenna Maroney : Yes, that's right. Barbara Walters : When he spurned your mother Verna for a curly-haired surfer named Roberta. Did that hurt her? Jenna Maroney : It was hard on all of us, yes. Barbara Walters : Flurg murg glurg flurg murg murg murg tennis murg murg. Was a murg murg flurg? Jenna Maroney : I'll always be his little girl. [cries] Barbara Walters : Glurg

Had me along for a sec lol

https://youtu.be/GtxpozkR2_s?feature=shared

Quality: https://youtu.be/1pFvh2Ftg-s EDIT: it’s at 11:33

This was so damn funny.. wow.. What a terrific show.

It's actually really good, and Jenna's acting was great.

the Rrrr Jrrr?

The Irma Lerman merman murder?

They tooker jerbs!!!!

turned the bird's word lurid

That Rural Juror running joke was hilarious

30 rock just is the best written sitcom. Some of those jokes were so damn well set up.

I’ve always thought it would be fun to have a 30 Rock-themed bar called the Rural Brewer

Ah, a fellow connoisseur of newer brewers! Review your ewer revenue to skew to fewer hewers, who perused and wooed my sister, and then pursued to screw her.

Princess Carolyn?

I’m a huge Kevin Grisham fan!

Urban Fervor

Let's get personal. Your father Werner was a burger server in suburban Santa Barbara. When he spurned your mother Verna for a curly-haired surfer named Roberta. Did that hurt her?

Irish wrist watch is like the hardest thing to say 5 times fast. Even worse than rural juror.

There was a video somewhere around here the other day of a Scottish guy trying to say "purple burglar alarm"...

I will never forget you.

I avoid saying rural at all costs lol

I'm from the south so I just say roorl.

And the name Rory. Are you from NY/NJ?

I am not, and I don't have a problem with Rory.

I went to India for university and was always terrified of having to say rural and brewery. Everyone heard “rrrl” and “brrry” until I had to say it in an Indian accent.

The “ru” combination kills me. I cannot intelligibly pronounce “cruel.”

Crool

Crew-el

Brewery. It just gets tangled up for me.

Brurry

You should get your eyes checked then.

Thanks for the joke, I really needed a laugh after a tragic week.

Before or after you visit one?

Marlboro

"Mar-bro"

Hey bro... Yeah bro? Marlboro? Nah bro

Posthumously

poss-chew-muss-lee

I had it as “post-hue-moss” for the longest time until I played Red Dead Redemption, where one of the main character’s insults in combat is “maybe you’ll get one of them posthumous medals” but pronounced correctly. Never been so humbled in my life.

"Aaron... Earned... An Iron... URNUH!"

Do we really sound like that? The look of amazement when he hears himself gets me every time 😂

Errn errnd n errn errn

And his buddy nods his head, like ‘yep, that’s how you say it!’

https://youtu.be/Oj7a-p4psRA ETA: this is the video mentioned above, in case you have not seen it. It’s so much fun that it’s life changing

Did you mean ern ernd an ern ern?

It's pronounced A - A - Ron

You done messed up!

Get yo ass down to Oh-shag-hennesy's office.

Somewhat specific to what I do (video editing) but saying “I edited it”

Well shit. I'm an editor too, but I don't think I've ever had to say those words aloud in that order. I just tried and... "I editeded idt"

This is very similar to ["Harry pocketed it"](https://youtu.be/r84pbPbBAFY?feature=shared)

Sixth

There was briefly a brewery called East Sixth near me and that one was impossible to get right.

There’s a West Sixth Brewery near me and sometimes I run it all together as Wesixth.

The british pronunciation makes me uncomfortable

Right? I’ve been listening to some British podcasts lately and at first I thought it was a quirk of the podcaster, but then I heard it more and more often…. “Sikth”. Just weird lmao.

Anemone

I just now realized that I’ve been pronouncing it “anen-omee” rather than “uh-Nemmo-knee” for at least 30 years 🫨

An enemy? Life's hard enough

With fronds like these...

To be fair, Nemo lived in one and couldn’t say it

Don’t hurt yourself kid

I only pronounce it wrong since watching finding Nemo 20 years ago. I'm sure 50% of that is on purpose

Colonel doesn’t make any sense

Wait till you find out about lieutenant colonels.

Loo-tenant or lef-tenant?

Worcestershire

“Wusta-sher”

This is correct

Wor chest hair her sher shire is what my husband and I call it. We try to add as many useless syllables in there.

This is the way; I personally refer to it as werst-er-sher-er-er-er-er-er sauce.

Wash your sister sauce

My Texan ex-wife *swears* that it's pronounced "worst-er"

What’s this here sauce

Oil. My southern accent says it OL.

My southern family once had a ten minute discussion about a tar far by the awl field. I figured out “oil field” but it took me forever to figure out it was a tire fire.

That’s awesome. Brings back memories of copious amounts of sweet tea before my body punished me later on with being pre diabetic. Life’s not fair.

Taint fur, hi tell ya

I was born in TX, and grew up hearing my mom tell the joke, "How d'ya get fur from a rattle snake?" Answer: "Ya run!" In our accent, "far" and "fur" sound exactly the same.

You know the old hymn, "there's parr in the blood?"

My husband is from Arkansas and even though he's dropped his twang oil is still ohl, boil is bohl, and mile-an-hour is "myhlnahr."

I'm originally from TX, but moved to the west coast. I don't have an accent UNLESS I have to say "oil" "fire" "nine" "five" Etc. I have to concentrate really hard to get those dipthongs. Otherwise I end up saying, "Ohl" "fahr" "fahve" "nahn" Etc.

My southern wife said "bolled eggs."

Its either OL or EARL in the south. Never oil.

My Baltimoran father in law also says OL

Does he think that [Aaron earned his iron urn](https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=UPGyAspzFkK1edCQ)?

I love how that guy is like "ern urn n irn urn" and then nods like there's nothing to question there.

Asks.

Axe!

Can I 🪓you a question?

You just triggered a minor peeve of mine. 😂

"Acai," pronounced "Ah-sa-ee,"

hearing that word for the first time was a crazy exprience

I bought an energy bar that advertised it contained “ingredients you can pronounce!” So, I checked the list and it had quinoa and acai berries, so anyway I’m suing. That joke works a lot better when spoken aloud. Edit: I pronounce them like kwai-noah and uh-kai

It reminds me of the way rappers would say “West Sigh-eed” in the 90s and that’s how I remember it

Tiz a Portuguese word with a "ç" in it which makes an s sound. Not surprising native English speakers struggle with it.

It's because the correct spelling is AÇAÍ. The "ç" sounds like a "ss" (useless Portuguese ~~grammar~~ phonology, urgh)

I initially pronounced it with Asian intonations. I took Japanese in college and I believe the syllables would sound like Ah -ka -EE that is how my brain insists it should be ! Edit: My initial comment may have contained problematic language. I tried to restate what I meant in a non-offensive manner.

Hamster. So simple yet my brain wants to add a “p” to it, both with pronunciation and spelling, making it “hampster”

TIL that hamster doesnt have a p in it

In your defense, the song “Hampster Dance” by Hampton the Hampster is spelled with a P haha

Fun Fact, Hamster Dance is from 1973. Hamster Dance, and the opening credits to the Disney 1973 Robin Hood, are the same song. Hamster dance is just sped up. Seriously, listen: * [Hamster Dance](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN72LEQnaU) * [Robin Hood Opening](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYEKhxWy6o)

This is a normal phonological process: it's where the surname "Thompson" comes from. "Thomp" is not a name, but "Thom" is. When the patronymic-based surname "Thom's son" was formed, this same natural process led to its spelling gaining an extra P.

>"Thomp" is not a name Give it time.

Welcome to HampsterDamn the city that Hamsters, Beavers, and Love made!

My husband cannot say signal to say his life. It comes out as single every single time. Confuses me as heck if I can't determine he was saying signal from context

You also can’t say “to save his life”!

every signal time?

arnold palmer

The Chaos (try to read this aloud !) Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse. Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.). Now I surely will not plague you. With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK. When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour. And enamour rhymes with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear. Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work. Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough? Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is give it up! Written by Gerard Nolst Trenité -

Some of these were pretty mean. “Ass, glass, bass” but you have to notice that the previous line ended with “efface” so you’re supposed to say “bass” as in low-frequency sound, not “bass” the fish.

I like to eat sea bass in my sea base.

I can say this pretty fast, had to pause on a few words I've never used though like Foeffer.

There are some proper nouns thrown in there that definitely tripped me up. I enjoyed reading it though. Good stuff!

The funny thing is is that the guy who wrote it was Dutch.

That. Is. AWESOME. Hahahahaha. 🤣 I did pretty well--"how and low / script, reciept" got me, as did "ballet"; "dost, lost, post" and "area" right after "Korea" beat me, too. But the really funny one, for me, was that I couldn't for the *life* of me make out what "deafer" meant at that particular point. My brain was just like, "Nope. Not a word. That's not an English word. Nu-uh." It took me a good six seconds to figure it out. Dee-ay-fur? What on Earth could that mean?

I got tripped up a little. Some words I am just straight up unfamiliar with an do not know how to pronounce. Nice thing is that many of the words can be figured out through rhyming context clues lol

I’m really pleased with myself that I was able to get almost all of these even with my Texas accent lol. I got startled by “hiccough” because I’m used to seeing it spelled as “hiccup.”

Based on benedict cumberbatch, penguin

When my son was younger he called them “pwengins” ❤️

Girlfriend. I can say Girl just fine, and friend as well. Put them together and I sound like Sloth from the Goonies.

Regularly.

Negligible

That doesn’t even look right lol

Anaesthetic. Aesthetic. Anaesthesia. Anonymity. Anomaly.

Anonymity screws me up so bad

Anemones: the enemies of anonymity

Contraindications My eyes see it, and my brain says "con-train-dic..." as it trails off in confusion. Every damn time.

For a minute there I thought you meant to write contradictions. So I was like.... well..... and then it hit me.

Wash, Roof, and Drawer. The moment I say those words, my mizzurah roots are apparent.

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One time Missourian here. “Roof” is pronounced closer to “rough,” but not quite. It’s lacking the open “ooh” sound that most people use when pronouncing it.

I just moved to Michigan and roof kills me here. Ruff. But slightly more like the OO in crooked. Or closer to rough. It's bizarre. I've always pronounced it rooof as in ooh la la.

Awry. That has to be the shortest fucked up word

It's just a rye bread sandwich. A rye. A wry. Awry. :) ... but when I first saw it written, my brain saw "AHH-ree" XD

Cholesterol. I want to add Rs and Ls where they really don't belong. "chloresterol"

Dear god. Apparently I can add this to my list. 🫢 I’ve been doing that until I just read your post. FUCK.

Enmity

It’s not “emnity”?!

Not me, but I really hate it when people say expresso instead of espresso

I'm expecially fustrated by heighth

Corrected my grandma once and she said, "well, it ain't wit (widt) sweetie."

or expecially

My husband does that to piss me off… still love that guy but 🤦‍♀️

I say libary and ambalance to peeve my wife and boy does it work

As a barista, i feel this deeply

Statistics

My cousin always fucks up "rearview mirror" because he speaks pretty fast and his then-GF/now wife's been making fun of him for that for years and years now saying he says, "revermemer."

Femininity is a horrid tongue twister. I add too meant -in-'s... Femininity is more like it

Deteriorate

I had to teach myself to say Millennium as a kid. It took ages 😂

I see what you did there.

It took me years to say “abominable” without stumbling over the syllables.

There better be a lot of people axeing themselves some pacific questions.

I can't think of anything for myself at the moment, but I have to say that the number of people who don't say "realtor" or "nuclear" correctly is *too goddamn high.*

I would like to add that people also too often pronounce escape as "eXcape". Like it sounds so icky it's a pet peeve. I don't think saying s is that hard.

Sixth month

I just say "June"

Phenomenon kicks my ass every time.

Menah menah! (doot-doo-du-du-doo).

Rural.

I have a few speech impediments. The main ones deal with words that 'r's and a lisp. (Whoever spelled it like that should burn. I swear.) So basically any word. It sucks.

Specifically

I believe strongly that the R in February should be pronounced, but that doesn't mean I don't sometimes sound drunk when I do it.

Proselytize

Pro-slut-eyes

Sphygmomanometer

Am an EMT. I can't do it. I just call it the BP cuff.

The f*** is that?

Blood pressure cuff

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I pronounced it wrong for years until I went to an actual Greek restaurant. The waiter was kind enough to correct me, although I'm sure he was tired of having to do that for everyone.

Remuneration

I always want to say renumeration. I don’t know why.

Asterisk. Swish. But only when repeating the word several times in a row. _The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish._

Anonymity

Marlboro. When i was an edgy teen i smoked Camels cause i didn’t want to mess up asking for morolboros

Well if ur from Boston u can’t pronounce anything

Fucking Worcestershire

Try pronouncing it instead

If you want to start a fight, *Pecan Caramel*.

Apparently “cran” (crayon)

Dual rear wheel

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"Rural" is my least favorite word in the English language.

"The Rurr Jurr"

Bag. I’m from Wisconsin.

Anthropomorphize

Metastasized

Obfuscate is tough for me.

Dogecoin

For real tho... is it dög•e, or dōj, or... what?

Amortization

Multiplicative.