Words you can't deliver effectively...

[Jemble Fred]

He's not in Les Miserables, is he?

[chocky909]

He means Chris Langham.

[Goldentony]

I used to pronounce Hyperbole as Hyper Bowl. I've been assured i wasn't the only one but i could have been lied to.

[daisy11]

He's not in Les Miserables, is he?

Sshurely you don't need to be an actor to be in that.

Can we have a consensus on subsequently and sub siquently, is the latter an Americanism.

[Fry]

Whenever I try to sat any word that ends in -ike it comes out a -oike.
And I can't say Pyramids, it sounds like 'Pewrmids'.

But I've got much better, I used to be suh a bad speaker.

[NoSleep]

I did once spit out the word 'mate' as an insult when it was obvious that I meant anything but. Otherwise 'mate', 'pal', 'dude', 'chum' and the like are words that I steer well clear of because I know that any attempt by me to utter them will reveal me to be a complete and utter fraud.
Also, I can't seem to say 'compromise' without spitting it out like a cyst in a burger.

Pal & Chum both used to be brands of dog food, so were often used to express disdain towards another.

[Angst in my Pants]

I used to pronounce Hyperbole as Hyper Bowl. I've been assured i wasn't the only one but i could have been lied to.

You are Natasha Beddingfield and I claim my tuppence-ha'penny.

[chocky909]

Here's one. I always cringe when I have to refer to cannabis. I took about ten seconds to decide what to call it just then. No matter what I call it, I imagine that I appear as if I'm trying to be cool and failing badly. I just can't say any of them nonchalantly. So I have to resort to a silly voice which isn't much better.

Dope, weed, blow, ganga, marjuana, skunk, puff (I never use this), hash. They all sound so naff.

[Starlit]

Here's one. I always cringe when I have to refer to cannabis. I took about ten seconds to decide what to call it just then. No matter what I call it, I imagine that I appear as if I'm trying to be cool and failing badly. I just can't say any of them nonchalantly. So I have to resort to a silly voice which isn't much better.

Dope, weed, blow, ganga, marjuana, skunk, puff (I never use this), hash. They all sound so naff.

I'm with you on that.
I find that weed is the least uncomfortable term to use, but I certainly don't look forward to using it on the rare occasions where I have to.

[drberbatov]

Sian and Renault are the words which particularly trouble me

[sick as a pike]

Sian and Renault are the words which particularly trouble me

Let's hope you never have to talk to the Renault Human Resources office at Rickmansworth.

[PAGATRON]

You think you lot have got it bad, sometimes people can't understand word that I say.

[Dark Sky]

I can't pronounce "specific" without extending the "s" sound at the beginning. So it comes off like "pissss-cific".

Ohhhhh no-one can say that!  I was gonna post that I couldn't say that word but realised that it was just a pronunciation thing rather than a "I can't pull off saying this word because my attitude/accent is wrong" thing, which is more what the thread is about.

But yeah, I dread saying the word "specific".  I try to say "particular" instead.

[Eight Taiwanese Teenagers]

One of my main problem is my own fucking name. What kind of moron puts a CH just after an X!?

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Your name is Exchange? Does that ever make you sad?

[Utter Shit]

I used to pronounce Hyperbole as Hyper Bowl. I've been assured i wasn't the only one but i could have been lied to.

On a similar note, it was only after someone noted the correct pronunciation (funnily enough, because THEY had to be explaine they were pronouncing it wrong) of 'awry' that I realised it was 'a-rye', I'd always read it as "awe-ree' for some reason, even though I'd heard the word a thousand times before...it was only when I was both reading it and 'hearing' it at the same time that I realised my mistake.

[ziggy starbucks]

you know when you're out for a walk in the woods/moors/park and you walk past someone? Well in my neck of the woods there is a common code of conduct which means saying something like "hello" or "alright".

But sometimes I have a bit of a brain fade and just as i'm saying "hello", I get an urge not to and instead say "alright". The consequence is that i say the first bit of "hello" and the last bit of "alright", which comes out as "hellright"