easy words you find it hard to say

February. For me it's either 'Feb-yew-ree' or, if I get bored of that, 'Febree'.

I only relatively recently discovered that you're supposed to pronounce the 'h' in 'adhesive' too.

f that

Apparently, one isn't meant to hit the 'h' in 'vehicle' as hard as I do.

my mum's mum was scottish (well, rutherglen scottish, which is a kind of scottish) and was very firm indeed abt pronouncing the h in words like "wheel" (= you have to say Hweel not weel)

i live in london tho: if there's a glottal i can stop i will and do

ie i say wee-oo

cool hwip

I do say vee-hickle on purpose sometimes

(of course L is alveolar not glottal: basically i drop all the consonants of whatever articulatory type and i am right to, awwigh')

I think I occasionally 'mispronounce' words because I grew up all over the eastern side of the US and accumulated a plethora of conflicting regional accents throughout the course of my childhood.

Vehicle and the t in "often" vary regionally, don't let anyone (like Bill Bryson) tell you you're wrong

I don't let Bill Bryson tell me shit

^^^

my former roommate's granny could never pronounce janeane garofalo's name right, it always came out, and this killed us for some reason, as: JEAN-ANNE gair-uh-FOE-low

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vNEAAOSwdGFYr3ln/s-l300.jpg

haha yes

'innovative' and 'optometrist'

my mum's mum was scottish (well, rutherglen scottish, which is a kind of scottish) and was very firm indeed abt pronouncing the h in words like "wheel" (= you have to say Hweel not weel)

this reminds me of an elderly substitute teacher who was completely insistent that (iirc) 'what' and 'watt' were pronounced differently, much to our confusion

tbh tho i don't myself maintain the distinction i like when i hear it bcz it reminds me of my gran, who was grebt

grebt

Yeah my granny is also scotch & pronounces wh words with the h

I also like how you can tell when an English person is doing it as an affectation cause they occasionally slip up and put the h sound into a regular w word

Which is another good thing to do on purpose obv

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But the thing I have most difficulty saying is 'Jack DeJohnette'

with my NY accent, it's nearly impossible to say "horror." comes out like harrrrrrrr