If English wasn’t your first language, maybe if you learned English later in life, were there any words that you had a really hard time learning how to pronounce? Do you think that had to do with the sounds made in your first language?

    • stray@pawb.social
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      16 hours ago

      It helps to break it up.

      worce - ster - shire

      “Worcestershire sauce is the worst.”

      “Thousand island is worster.”

      “‘Worster’? Sure.”

    • w3dd1e@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      English as my first language and I can’t get that one right either.

      No one can.

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          16 hours ago

          You don’t say the last ‘R’? I’ve always said it ‘woo - stur - sure’ or ‘wi - stur - sure,’ depending on how fast I say it.

          I’m American though.

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            15 hours ago

            That’s because you’re American. That’s how you say it with an American accent. Like think about how Brits say “sure” vs how Americans say “sure”. Americans pronounce the R far more.