Do you have a word in English you just can’t pronounce right (and How Did You Fix It)?"

Try saying Third without the D, then Row

For me it's words going straight from r to th. I struggle with the transition.

I can't say mercury unless I'm not thinking about it. As soon as I'm trying to say it deliberately the pronunciation goes haywire.

i'm a native english speaker and numbered words fuck me up. example: fifths, sixths, twelfths. the second one is a lot rarer to use but the first and second are pretty common

Juror. Months. They come out as “jurrrr” and “munss”.

I have a coworker who any time he has to say "somatization" he says "sodomization" to the point where I just jump in and say the word if he has to say it in an actual meeting. We've tried breaking it down into syllables and practicing it one at a time and he can eventually say it, but then it reverts the next time he has to say it in front of people.

patriarchal...and I only know english lol

For thorough, I was just practicing this with my students. Try saying it as two words - "thor" (as in the god/superhero) or "thur" (as in Thursday) and the "row" (like you row a boat). You say the r sound twice

For me it’s Star Wars. I’m eager to learn how everybody, especially for non-native speakers, to fix it.

You should have seen how badly I butchered Ecclesiastes (a book in the bible). Repetition is what sorted it out. I can't even remember how I used to pronounce it.

Digital, when I say it, it comes out Dizhital. I’m a native English speaker but my Grandmother was an Asian Immigrant who married an American in the 1950’s. So my Mom inherited her accent (to the point of needing speech classes to correct it), and because Mom never fully shook the accent I also have a slight accent. So Rs, Ls, Gs never sound quite right when I say them

Plurality

I'm a native English (American Dialect). It is a pet peeve of mine when other native speakers say simple English words wrong An example is the word "escape." When people say "exape," I have to hold my tongue to not correct them. I dont want to be THAT person. Of course in the classroom or when tutoring, I always point out the difference. (I'd never get irritated at a EFL for mispronouncing a word. My second language is Mandaring. Even after 20 years with 4 being in China, I still have to speak in full sentences or most people don't understand me.)

Native speaker, but I always struggle with “incapacitate“

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"Texts" (Native speaker, by the way)

Literature  Comfortable  Asked  And anything containing a schwa

I struggle saying words that have repeated r’s or have a r-vowel-r. Rural, Horror, etc. I just have to make an effort to annunciate the r’s more than I would normally.

Don't know why, but I used to struggle with saying "distribution". Eventually I got over the hump but I'm not sure how lol

“three” always sounds funny to me especially when i need to say several of it in a row. it’s like you need to retrieve your tongue from between your teeth very quickly and then put it back and so forth. plus it tiggers some bad memory of mine of being laughed at in a class for my awkward pronunciation of such a simple word 🥲i’d say i’ve improved a lot after years of practice but am still a bit bothered by it even now.

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I struggle a lot with words that end in -th, but I can't say words that end with -ths, such as maths, at all

"werewolf" now i know its pronouced like "ware - wolf" but in middle school i tried pronoucing it like "we - ree - wolf" : almost died of embarassment and shame and never made the mistake again

Can only get Anaesthetists right on the first go <20% of the time

Tbf I find it funny when Americans say it like thurrow.

Rural I still can't say it.

Just say "tha-ra" close enough in an English accent.

Suggestion

Say thorough like THUR-row, where thur pronounced is like “third”.

I’m a native speaker, but I have such a hard time with the word “opioid” for some reason! I mess it up like half the time I say it.

I have a few words that I always mangle — usually by switching the syllables. My solution is to use different words and avoid them. Fortunately, they aren’t frequently used, but I’m 50+ years old and it annoys me that I cannot conquer them. Some of my problem words: Interminably Voluminous Benevolent Indomitable