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emmie | 14:03 Thu 16th Jun 2011 | Word Origins
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that you find hard to spell or worse say. I fall at the first hurdle of unequivocal, for reasons i can't explain, it comes out jumbled, and now i have to put it aside, or find an alternative. Indubitably is another tongue twister. any you care to share?
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I have the same problem with apocalypse for some reason.
ambivalence, I can't pronounce it, or spell it.
My uncle was always using the word phenomenal in conversation. I still cannot
pronounce it properly to this day. I put in too many noms!
Only Eyjafjallajökull (think I spelt it right) then I practised and can say it perfectly ..so there !
When ever I hear someone say the word "phenomenal" it always makes me want to sing "beep beeeee, bee dee bee!"
I have never been able to spell one word, and my attempts are clearly so bad that even a spell check doesn't get it. I'll try it below - if someone can work out what it is.

con-che-en-tuous

How the bloody nora do you spell that word?
Not to mention Llanfairpwllgwyngyllchgogerychwyrndrobyllllan
tysiliogogogoch.
brewery, it can;t pronouce the r's. i have no trouble with other words with r's in them just that one
Consciencious.
Even that doesn't sound right like that. Con-che-en-chus.

I also can't say the word Risborough.Despite living in a place for years that has that word in it, whenever I say it, it comes out as risbrwa.
I love the word phenomenal, I also put in too many noms when I hear the word, lol. I think it's a muppet thing, but I can't help myself from humming.
You missed out a 'W' mike ;-) (near the end)
Ah, thanks mike! Copied indefinitely.
Conscientious!!!
...just before the four 'L's
drobyll should be drobwll.
Sorry... but luckily I'm rarely wrong so it doesn't come up too often ;-p

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