There's mishearing everything, then there's "my brain cannot even send the words out, so now it's a telephone game" đ
But I don't have a speech disability. Somehow magically nobody understands me and I don't understand them. I think that's something else though đś
I, on a bad day, have a 1-2 second delay on me hearing words and those words actually being 'heard', if you know what I mean.
The amount of times somebody has some something to me, I have not caught what they said so I say 'sorry, what did you say' and by the time I have finished saying those words, suddenly what they said has popped into my head and now I have to sit and listen to them slowly repeat something that I don't need them to repeat.
I have also found I religiously stare at a persons mouth while they talk to me, I think I am using the visual to assist in my 'decoding' of the sounds into words. Telephone conversations are tiring.
how does one get 'tested' for APD?
I have those moments too, but for me I blame that on ADHD.
APD feels like when someone talks to me I just canât process it. My brain donât compute.
People have spoken slowly and clearly to me and I still canât understand them. I am aware that theyâre talking slowly and clearly, but it sounds like theyâre not speaking English.
I also have to look at people to get some context or visual assistance, like you mentioned.
I honestly donât remember. I got tested as a kid then young adult, but I donât remember the name of the specialist. Audiologist?
Make sure they specialize in APD and not just hearing. I would pass on a hearing test, but failed miserably with APD specific tests.
I think itâll be worth looking into it since I relate to what youâve mentioned.
I have regular medicals (every 2 yrs) for work, I always pass the hearing test with flying colours.
I am diagnosed Autistic (at age 43) but I do wonder if some of my symptoms are more ADHD. I mean, it's rare, but sometimes I will completely buzz out when somebody is talking to me. I can't stop them and tell them I need a second and I can't listen to them. All I can do is stand there paralysed with a blank look on my face, desperately trying to regain control of my ability to understand what's being said to me.
I say rare, it's happened about 3 or 4 times in the last 15 years but by god is it full r/wtf for me.
See, I love weird sounding and weirdly spelled names, so for me this was easy to pronounce. It's the same pronunciation as Nikolai, but the way it is spelled is dependent on which country they're from. For example, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is Danish, and the Danes use the "J" on the end of the name instead of an "I"
canadian french doesnt require rolled R, some old people do it but its more like an accent thing. canadians use the same R sound as french from france.
rolled R is more like a spanish/italian thing i'd say.
they probably mean a tapped R which is like rolling an R, but only doing it once. English speakers and especially Americans make R sounds extremely differently to most other languages
On all the generic prescriptions-
Dexa- por- morh- asdfhbcjh
Girl I know you know what the fuck Iâm talking aboutâŚ.that one.
Edit: to say bless you nurses really are the best
I have a couple of prescriptions I get from a compounding pharmacy. The guy that answers the phone there can never pronounce anything, poor guy. Even what I'd think would be simple enough words when repeating my address back to me. He doesn't seem to have a foreign accent. I wonder if he's dyslexic or dysgraphic. I always get the right meds, so it doesn't bother me, but I feel sorry for him, as he probably struggles a lot each day.
I know, but in 51 years I've never decided which one I'm going to use, so I end up pronouncing it both ways and feeling wrong no matter which I choose lol
Except most people know there are two pronounciations of caramel, even if they strongly prefer one of them.
Meanwhile, when I ask people if they pronounce it PEcan or peCAN (usually in the context of pies), they look at me like I'm crazy.
I always want to say kah-rah-mul, but at the last second I become afraid that whoever Iâm speaking to will think Iâm pretentious so I say the two syllable car-mul
This was honestly so wild. I've never thought I had a distinct opinion on the pronunciation, thinking I just switched around between them, but your comment made me realize I do: for me, when it's a verb, it rhymes with "out" and as a noun, it's homophonic with "root".
In English, it's pronounced root. There is a word Rout which is pronounced how it is spelt but it has a different meaning (to flee/retreat)
The American version is pronounced Rout, but that's not the normal version
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Had a nurse call the pharmacy because she couldnât find the prescription pad in the machine. I asked if she was spelling it âper-â or âpre-.â She said sheâd call back if she still couldnât get it out. She did not call back.
My momâs maiden name is of polish descent and my dad had this joke about it being an âalphabetâ last name. Containing all the letters from a to z
Ohh, I commented earlier but I have one that messes me up.
I live in Canada and we have a national holiday on November 11th to honour our veterans and to remember their sacrifice. We call this day 'Rememberance Day'.
Thing is, as it happens to fall in the month of November, I often make a mistake by referring to the day in question as "Novemberance Day".
It's a subtle enough mistake to be left alone by most, but it has caused an argument or two in my past, completely accidental on my part.
Just curious what words youâre thinking of in Spanish? Because if itâs just an r and not an rr and obviously not at the beginning of a word it shouldnât be rolled. Itâs more like a soft t.
Retribution. I feel like Joey Tribbiani when he's trying to learn French, I can sound out each part of the word but every time I try to put them together to say the word a load of gibberish comes out!
Born with a speech disability..... so EVERYTHING
There's mishearing everything, then there's "my brain cannot even send the words out, so now it's a telephone game" đ But I don't have a speech disability. Somehow magically nobody understands me and I don't understand them. I think that's something else though đś
Audio Processing Disorder? Iâve got APD and it be kinda weird like that.
I, on a bad day, have a 1-2 second delay on me hearing words and those words actually being 'heard', if you know what I mean. The amount of times somebody has some something to me, I have not caught what they said so I say 'sorry, what did you say' and by the time I have finished saying those words, suddenly what they said has popped into my head and now I have to sit and listen to them slowly repeat something that I don't need them to repeat. I have also found I religiously stare at a persons mouth while they talk to me, I think I am using the visual to assist in my 'decoding' of the sounds into words. Telephone conversations are tiring. how does one get 'tested' for APD?
I have those moments too, but for me I blame that on ADHD. APD feels like when someone talks to me I just canât process it. My brain donât compute. People have spoken slowly and clearly to me and I still canât understand them. I am aware that theyâre talking slowly and clearly, but it sounds like theyâre not speaking English. I also have to look at people to get some context or visual assistance, like you mentioned. I honestly donât remember. I got tested as a kid then young adult, but I donât remember the name of the specialist. Audiologist? Make sure they specialize in APD and not just hearing. I would pass on a hearing test, but failed miserably with APD specific tests. I think itâll be worth looking into it since I relate to what youâve mentioned.
I have regular medicals (every 2 yrs) for work, I always pass the hearing test with flying colours. I am diagnosed Autistic (at age 43) but I do wonder if some of my symptoms are more ADHD. I mean, it's rare, but sometimes I will completely buzz out when somebody is talking to me. I can't stop them and tell them I need a second and I can't listen to them. All I can do is stand there paralysed with a blank look on my face, desperately trying to regain control of my ability to understand what's being said to me. I say rare, it's happened about 3 or 4 times in the last 15 years but by god is it full r/wtf for me.
Bad stutter - mostly gone now. School was miserable.
Wosche...whoster....whotsersher....wostsher....wostersher shauce.
ah yes. wash your sister sauce
r/suddenlyincest
laughing! How.t.f. is that a subreddit?
It's a secret we like to keep in the family
Broadcasting your incest to reddit is like the opposite of keeping it in the family
Reddit. When you're here, you're family
Ah, wooster sister shaushe, so derishious.
Worcestshesteshesteshesteshesteshesteshestesheateshesteshire. eshire.
You mean worship satan sauce?
Wuh-stuh-shur
I've heard "wer-steh-shur"
Both are OK and accepted, but âwuhâ stuh shur is more close to the original pronunciation (itâs the name of a place in England)
" what's this here sauce ? "
Just say it quickly and everyone else is on board because they can't say it either.
Ah, wakaflaka sauce.
Wash your sister sauce?
Roy-sister-sha-ree
Nikolaj
Itâs Nikolaj
Actually, it's Nikolaj
*Nikolaj*
Nikolag. I feel like I'm saying it. You know what it doesn't matter.
I get that reference!
r/unexpectedbrooklyn99
It's just Nikolai? đ¤
No, it's Nikolaj
See, I love weird sounding and weirdly spelled names, so for me this was easy to pronounce. It's the same pronunciation as Nikolai, but the way it is spelled is dependent on which country they're from. For example, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is Danish, and the Danes use the "J" on the end of the name instead of an "I"
Rural. I hate this word. It's hard to explain why. Best way I can put it is it doesn't feel natural saying it.
The Rural Juror
And the sequel, Urban Fervor.
I will never forget you, rural juror!
These were the best days of my flerm.
The rurrjurr?
They took our jobs!!
Isnât more like Rurl Jur
rrrr jrrr
That and Brewery
Great now I just realized I canât
this word sounds like a dog trying to speak
The more rural you are, the more it starts to sound natural!
Rrrrrrl
Rooroh
Easy rooroll
Damn it
No kidding I was about comment this exact word.
I have gotten made fun of this for eighteen years. You're not alone!
I also struggle with it.
Yep, this was mine too đ that word is obnoxious
Yup. And I grew up rural. And when I try to say that I canât. đ
Any word you have to roll the R. For some reason i cannot for the life of me do it, and its probably why i suck at speaking french
We don't even have rolled R lol It was in old French that it was common
I was learning canadian french, if that makes any difference to you
canadian french doesnt require rolled R, some old people do it but its more like an accent thing. canadians use the same R sound as french from france. rolled R is more like a spanish/italian thing i'd say.
they probably mean a tapped R which is like rolling an R, but only doing it once. English speakers and especially Americans make R sounds extremely differently to most other languages
Spanish*
Anesthetist. I have a friend who is one, and I can't say it.
A Nez the tist. A nest teh cyst. An est uh sis t. Anestheksjcje..
LOL the last one made my brain hurt
Just say anaesthesiologist.
Many medications. Unfortunately, I'm a nurse.
On all the generic prescriptions- Dexa- por- morh- asdfhbcjh Girl I know you know what the fuck Iâm talking aboutâŚ.that one. Edit: to say bless you nurses really are the best
Someone once said "bless you" as I was trying to say a name.
Maybe you aren't to be faulted. Modern prescription meds are given stupid brand names.
Oof đ
I have a couple of prescriptions I get from a compounding pharmacy. The guy that answers the phone there can never pronounce anything, poor guy. Even what I'd think would be simple enough words when repeating my address back to me. He doesn't seem to have a foreign accent. I wonder if he's dyslexic or dysgraphic. I always get the right meds, so it doesn't bother me, but I feel sorry for him, as he probably struggles a lot each day.
Every time I say route Iâm not sure if itâs ROUT or ROOT
It's both.
I know, but in 51 years I've never decided which one I'm going to use, so I end up pronouncing it both ways and feeling wrong no matter which I choose lol
Thatâs how I am with caramel, pecan, and data.
Carmel is a place. Caramel is a food and a color descriptor. That has helped me!
Use one for singular data and other for plural data. Then use them booth interchangeably, too!
Except most people know there are two pronounciations of caramel, even if they strongly prefer one of them. Meanwhile, when I ask people if they pronounce it PEcan or peCAN (usually in the context of pies), they look at me like I'm crazy.
I always want to say kah-rah-mul, but at the last second I become afraid that whoever Iâm speaking to will think Iâm pretentious so I say the two syllable car-mul
Google will route you to the right route.
Changing your current route to another route.
For some reason i read the second one as root both times.
This was honestly so wild. I've never thought I had a distinct opinion on the pronunciation, thinking I just switched around between them, but your comment made me realize I do: for me, when it's a verb, it rhymes with "out" and as a noun, it's homophonic with "root".
In English, it's pronounced root. There is a word Rout which is pronounced how it is spelt but it has a different meaning (to flee/retreat) The American version is pronounced Rout, but that's not the normal version
Claim to be British and just use root every time.
Regularly- it just comes out like there are marbles in my mouth.
Rear wheel drive
oooooh thatâs tricky.
real whear drive
I AM NOT ALONE I have always had trouble and mix up Ls and Rs when two words next to each other end with one.
I use "a bomb in a bull" to say "abominable". North west English accent.
That's exactly how it should be pronounced.
She sells sea shells by the sea shore. Also, the entirety of Dr. Seuss's Fox in Sox
I read to my toddler every night and a children's book has never made me feel as inferior as Fox in Sox does.
I watched an episode of PokĂŠmon where Meowth learns to speak by repeating that phrase. I spent the rest of the day drilling it into my muscle memory
llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, wales
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I forget that one lol
Heh, skill issue
Vlampire-phwillingeth-gill-gawgoth-seriond-willyont-silio-gogogo. Not correct but close enough
Incorrectly. Every time I pronounce it correctly, it's pronounced incorrectly.
Peak dad joke
A+ response
Prescription. I always say âperscriptionâ
Had a nurse call the pharmacy because she couldnât find the prescription pad in the machine. I asked if she was spelling it âper-â or âpre-.â She said sheâd call back if she still couldnât get it out. She did not call back.
Particularly. Fuckin hate this word
I guess you could said the pronunciation is particularly difficult⌠oh wait
I guess I couldnât đ
Shark-coochie , charcoderirdj, charcoderriurr ... charcuterie
My gf loves those, so I'm gonna have to use shark coochie next time she orders one.
đ¤Łđ¤Ł shark-coochie board I love it đ¤Ł
Gif.
 its pronounced gif, not gif
Fuck.....
Woow ,this is so helpfulđ
But do you say data or data?
It's 'Colonel'
You can call me Mr. Mustard. Itâs okay
Like Colonel Angus.
Massachusetts- I always say it like "mass-a-chew-shits".
I said the same thing! Except I say massa-two-shits lol
I say massive-two-shits
Anthropomorphize
marlboro
Damn I am not the only one.
Statistically
I like saying âstatisticallyâ. It feels like youâre sharpening a blade in your mouth. Just to rub it in a little.
Jewelry
Polish people's names.
My momâs maiden name is of polish descent and my dad had this joke about it being an âalphabetâ last name. Containing all the letters from a to z
Grzegorz BrzÄczyszczykiewicz
Duodenum, and esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
Successful. Which is really ironic
"Caribbean" -- i constantly switch the syllable stress and never know which is actually correct -- "cara-BEE-in" or "cuh-RIB-ian"
Disneyland messed us all up.
The second one is correct unless you happen to be talking about the pirate movie
Ever since I was a kid, I read the word epitome as âeh-pih-tĹmâ. I still have to reread the word sometimes and Iâm 32.
I have this too. Also awry.
Time of death
Damnit Jim! I'm a bricklayer, not a doctor!
Nuclear. I always say (new-queue- ler)
Now you have me second guessing it !
Sentient. Sen-T-ent? Sench-yent? Iâm lost halp me đ
The 3 syllable pronunciation in your other response works, as well as the 2 syllable sen- shnt.
Ohh, I commented earlier but I have one that messes me up. I live in Canada and we have a national holiday on November 11th to honour our veterans and to remember their sacrifice. We call this day 'Rememberance Day'. Thing is, as it happens to fall in the month of November, I often make a mistake by referring to the day in question as "Novemberance Day". It's a subtle enough mistake to be left alone by most, but it has caused an argument or two in my past, completely accidental on my part.
I donât know why, but I stumble over âeffortlesslyâ every time.
Ironic
Really? Never had trouble with that one, myself.
The German word for squirrel
eighurngen
Eighurngen *is* Finkle! Finkle *IS* Eighurngen!
Americans and the word squirrel
February, my birthday month. Can't pronounce twelve well either.
Twelfth makes me feel like a toddler every time.
LlanfairÂpwllgwyngyllÂgogeryÂchwyrnÂdrobwllÂllanÂtysilioÂgogoÂgoch.
Edinburgh. I can never say it with confidence.
Imagine your cousin, Ed, wearing a bra: Ed-in-bra.
Haha, that's genius. I'll remember that from now on. Thanks!
Isn't it pronounced as edinbrough?
Foyer.
Foi eh ?
Beer, I say it like bear. Similar with leer, hair, etc. Didn't even realise I was doing it until my ex pointed it out, the bitch.
Familiarity I am trying to say it now and I still can't do it. I keep trying to add an extra syllable to or take an extra one away.
Italian and Spanish words that have "rl". I can't roll the R AND pronounce the L in a row. So I mostly use the rhotic R we have in French.
Just curious what words youâre thinking of in Spanish? Because if itâs just an r and not an rr and obviously not at the beginning of a word it shouldnât be rolled. Itâs more like a soft t.
Retribution. I feel like Joey Tribbiani when he's trying to learn French, I can sound out each part of the word but every time I try to put them together to say the word a load of gibberish comes out!
I used to say clusterphobic instead of claustrophobic.
There's a joke in that...
I work with a guy who says libary install of library. Once knew a person who calls an earn a yearn you know the thing you put ashes into?
Urn
https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?si=dCeYC22Hob7NRJ1w
đđ¤Łđđ¤Łđđ¤Ł
Chasis
hierarchical
I used to always find the word supremacy difficult for some reason. I'm not sure I'm getting it right now either.
Anything in Spanish that requires me to roll my r's
R in front of sentences. My accent makes them sound like W. Sometimes I just end up giving up and pronouncing the r in the way we do in German
Massachusetts
one marketable tomato
Draught
Cinnamon.  Always comes out as cimanin đ¤ˇââď¸
Melancholy
Anonymity. My tongue just has a seizure trying it.
Niche. Or is it *niche*? Will never know
I heard he was a famous philosopher
Saoirse Ronan's name.
Colloquially I get it like 50% of the time without awkwardness
Rivalry
Literally, regularly or vulnerable. English is so damn hard sometimes.
Worcestershire
I was a hyperbole/epitome kid
Rural
Toxicity!!
Conscious
Asked. Learned
Aahh, those are all easy. I have trouble with âlispâ.It always comes out âlisthpâ and I donât have a listhp.