Words that sound wrong!

29 May 2004

Kerb!
It just doesn't sound right, not a word at all and the more I say it today the weirder it's beginning to sound :shock:
Just thought I would share that with you lol

No reason ...... I'll get my coat redface

Oh and another thing. Why can't I say the word 'rural' out loud without sounding like Johnathon Ross! Try it! Sounds fine in my mind, but just won't come out my mouth the same way! - Please let me know how you get on with this word and reassure me that I'm not the only one who can't say it!

29 May 2004

Kerb... maybe. Rurual, definitely.
But one think I just can't say properly is "beer can". Whenever I try to say it, I sould just like a Jamaican saying BACON! :shock: :shock: :shock:

29 May 2004

Hang on, Angel, I'm coming round for breakfast - got any iggs to go with that beer can!! lol

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Mal
:lol:

29 May 2004

Yes MISSCHIEF, I find "rural" difficult to pronounce, and "February" is even worse!
Mike.

29 May 2004

Quote by MISSCHIEF
Kerb!
It just doesn't sound right, not a word at all and the more I say it today the weirder it's beginning to sound :shock:

MISSCHIEF you are right although having stareD at it is even worse as now it doesn't look right either !!!
I need to put the kettle on and have a nice hoT BEVERAGE

29 May 2004

Oh god

:rotflmao: :rotflmao:
Angel mad

You do realise that every time I get a bit tiddly from now on I will be getting anyone within earshot to say Beer Can! ...... and collapse with laughter every single time! rolleyes

Mike, I don't think anyone can say February in a natural manner lol. As for Beverage, oh god, it sounds ok, but looks so stupid :shock:

29 May 2004

Quote by MISSCHIEF
Angel You do realise that every time I get a bit tiddly from now on I will be getting anyone within earshot to say Beer Can! ...... and collapse with laughter every single time!

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: MissChief, I do this anyway!!
A friend of mine has something of a fixation with Bob Marley and wanted to go to a fancy dress party dressed as him. I told her she should take 2 slices of bread with a beer can between them and she had no idea what I meant. I thought it was hilarious though (but then, like Neil, I have always found my own jokes far too funny redface

)

29 May 2004

What about that stuff you put on your chips:
Vinegar?
Vinginger - thats the stuff!
I have to stop and think everytime I say it!
redface

lhk

29 May 2004

Blouse!
Just doesn't sound like what it is! dunno

29 May 2004

Anyone remember Woody and Tinny words? - Was that Derek and Clive, or someone different altogether? confused

lhk

29 May 2004

Quote by MISSCHIEF
Kerb! It just doesn't sound right,

K**t
You're dead right nothing so beautiful should sound so ugly - why do they always start with a K confused

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Apologies to the delicate :!:

29 May 2004

There's also that weird mental block thing too where a normal, perfectly good word suddenly seems as though you've mispelt it. The more you stare at to try and convince yourself it's right, the odder it seems.
Once you look away and read something else it seems fine when you go back to it.
I always thought it was a 'just me' thing but others I've mentioned it to seem to have had the same thing. I always wondered if thats how dyslexics feel if you magnified the feeling ??
Oh, and I sometimes stutter during the word 'digital' which is odd as I works with computers, love video games and electronic music - you'd think I'd be used to it by now !!
Carpathian Type-o-naut

29 May 2004

Quote by Carpathian
Oh, and I sometimes stutter during the word 'digital' which is odd as I works with computers, love video games and electronic music - you'd think I'd be used to it by now !!
Carpathian Type-o-naut

Nothing wrong with putting a tit between your digit :!:

29 May 2004

You've got me at it now just read the word TRIMMED on another thread and that doesn't look right either.
In fact I'm now looking out for them :shock: ......curses !!!

29 May 2004

Quote by davej
You've got me at it now just read the word TRIMMED on another thread and that doesn't look right either.
In fact I'm now looking out for them :shock: ......curses !!!

Just looking at your Avatar - there's something hanging down from your left wrist that should be
TRIMMED

29 May 2004

Some of the expressions we use metaphorically without thinking are suddenly very amusing if we think of them literally: "barking up the wrong tree" always makes me chuckle now.
Mike.

29 May 2004

LINGERIE
When you say it ..........it sounds so sofisicated.
Not when I forget myself as I did along time ago in Keddies (boy you don't see them anymore ) and asked where the LIN....GER...RAY dept, is please. !!! redface

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29 May 2004

Quote by KitKat
What about that stuff you put on your chips:
Vinegar?
Vinginger - thats the stuff!
I have to stop and think everytime I say it!

lhk

My nephew used to (in fact still does (and he is 40!)) call it vigenar!

29 May 2004

SEE! Stupid bloody word! mad

29 May 2004

Quote by AngelChat
I thought it was hilarious though (but then, like Neil, I have always found my own jokes far too funny )

i used to love that joke as well. but it's a good job i can't remember jokes or i'd sound quite insane i think. crease with hysterics trying to tell the few i do know when i'm feeling brave ( read pissed ) lol

the lol's and rofl's and pmsl's coming from an empty house must already have them wondering!? :lol:

Quote by MrsFC
Not when I forget myself as I did along time ago in Keddies (boy you don't see them anymore ) and asked where the LIN....GER...RAY dept, is please. !!!

i don't know if it was just cos i was a smutty minded kid, with catalogue browsing habits to match, but i always found the sound of ling-gear-ree unusually exotic and erotic. was quite disappointed to learn the right way to say it! just didn't have the same associations! ;-)

Quote by Carpathian
There's also that weird mental block thing too where a normal, perfectly good word suddenly seems as though you've mispelt it. The more you stare at to try and convince yourself it's right, the odder it seems.

yep that's the one. to someone brought up in leeds pretty much anything anybody says sounds funny, even in other yorkshire accents. but stumbling when you try to write 'it' or whatever cos it just can't possibly be spelt like that? and if it is then why didn't you notice before. and then losing the plot altogether. like now...........
neil x x x x x

29 May 2004

When you talk posh like wot I do everybody sounds funny and evryfink they pronounce sounds weird....brill!
Oh I'm from dowwwn souf!

29 May 2004

I find that many words just do not live up to the thing one is talking about. For example, dick, cock, John Thomas, dong, schlong, pork sword etc when penis has a real sexy stimulating ring to it. And again, wank, five finger exercise, bashing the bishop etc when the word masturbation is so evocative.

29 May 2004

Quote by KitKat
Anyone remember Woody and Tinny words? - Was that Derek and Clive, or someone different altogether?
lhk

I remember Woody Words and Tinny Words!!! I don't think it was Derek and Clive though, I think it was ............................................................................................. someone different altogether!! :? :shock: :shock: :shock:

29 May 2004

Ahhh Sarge !!!!!!
You don't know ....do you :giggle:

29 May 2004

I remember Derek and Clive ....it was Pete and Dud confused

:P ....wasn't it?

29 May 2004

No, I can't remember!! Shhhhhh!!

29 May 2004

supercalafragalisticespialidosious :dunno:
Off track slightly but what is belly buttonall about confused

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Love
Wilma
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29 May 2004

Quote by MrFC
I remember Derek and Clive ....it was Pete and Dud :P ....wasn't it?

Oh I remember them. They used to have me in stiches laughing at them laughing, if you see what I mean?!! :? :? :?

29 May 2004

Quote by WilmaFlintstone
Off track slightly but what is belly button all about :

Which part ofBelly Button are you having the problem with??:? :? lol

:lol: :lol: :lol:

29 May 2004

AAAArghhhhh!!! Mr FC!! Thats 999 Posts!!!!!!!! The next one makes you god-like. Make it a good one!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: