Recurring Phrase: Elephant Tits

[tongodeon]

matrushkaka speaks very well, but every once in a while she comes across a word that she's only read and isn't sure how to say. This also happens to hearing people - I had a friend who called Yosemite park "Yaw-see-maw-tee" and called pedestrian crossings "Ped Zings" - but it happens more with matrushkaka because even when someone speaks she just sees the lip movemment

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[vstraylight]

ing vey malm steen

[avocado_tom]

(My trouble word: Yanwiggie Malmstein.)

I always heard his name pronounced as ING-Vey:

"ing" as in fuck-ing
"vey" as in "oy-vey!"

HTH ;)

[dirtwitch]

Growing up in New England (outside a tiny backwoods town) as a prodigious (Prod ih GEE us?) reader was interesting..no, I seldom heard the words I read. There were innumerable times later in college and beyond that I would hear a word, and it would coalesce in my head; the sounds, the inferred meaning etc, till I would have an AHA! THAT is how that is pronounced!

[steeltoe]

Whoever started pronouncing Worcester as "wooster" should be stuffed with rotten cheese.

[gnat23]

It takes a few deep breaths and a certain lack of self-consciousness to go into a cheese shop and order something new.

"Can I try the, uhm, Gorwydd Caerphilly?"

[waider]

"I would recommend you try it VERY CAERPHILLY"