Words you hate because of their sounds

[Herr Dunkel]

Just rolls off the tongue, just like floccinaucinihilipilification and pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

Erentanoglulerinizemenizi?

[Bristel]

I hate the word "plug".

[Izambri]

Can't think of any Catalan word. Perhaps is that I tend to avoid them, so I don't know any.

[Qwynegold]

And to bring it full circle, if you dropped the /v/...

You mean "Ich angstscheiß' " ? I fear-shit =/ That's a bit silly a word. Angsty poop

D: OMG

Here's another ugly word: squat (V./N.)

[Qwynegold]

I hate the word "plug".

Ooh, I agree! And also "pug".

[Herr Dunkel]

Schwule

[blank stare II]

I find the sound of the word squirrel distasteful. It has that initial sk- sound, and an <r> after a <u> sound(my dialect ignores the <i> in squirrel).
My vote for best sounding word in the 'cellar door' sense is azaleas.

[Skomakar'n]

I find the sound of the word squirrel distasteful. It has that initial sk- sound, and an <r> after a <u> sound(my dialect ignores the <i> in squirrel).
My vote for best sounding word in the 'cellar door' sense is azaleas.

squirrel is only ugly in American English, but in American English, it is really ugly (just like girl, bird, word, world and so on).

[blank stare II]

How is it pronounced otherwise? IMD all those words have the same vowel.

[dunomapuka]

Arugula is ugly. I also have an aversion to panties, but so does everyone else, it seems.

[Astraios]

How is it pronounced otherwise? IMD all those words have the same vowel.

How it's meant to be pronounced, i.e. /skwɪɹəl/.

[Jipí]

[sk_wr\=5]

[finlay]

How is it pronounced otherwise? IMD all those words have the same vowel.

/skwɪrəl/. none of this /skwərl/ business.

Mind you, many scottish accents go the other way and break girl and world into two syllables, something like /gɪrəl/ and /wʌrəld/. I also find this ugly-sounding.

[Soap]

Arugula is ugly. I also have an aversion to panties, but so does everyone else, it seems.

Aye, arugula is the only reason I voted for McCain. Real Americans eat tomatoes and cucumbers!

[Jipí]

/wʌrəld/

Are you sure that one at least is not historic? MHG also has werelt and werlt, Icelandic still has veröld I think. (At least it's that in Sigur Rós, "Veröld ný og óð" (on Von) )

[finlay]

/wʌrəld/

Are you sure that one at least is not historic?

Not sure, don't care.

[Astraios]

It's probably a thing from Gaelic, because it happens in that when there's two sonorants at the end.

[finlay]

It's probably a thing from Gaelic, because it happens in that when there's two sonorants at the end.

Actually, yeah. IIRC "girrul" is more common the further west you go (ie it's common in Glasgow but less so in Edinburgh), and Glasgow's historically a Gaelic-speaking city or a Gaelic-influenced area. A long long time ago, though.

[sirdanilot]

In Dutch, I always find it difficult to pronounce words like /mArkt/ (market) and /hErfst/ (autumn, cognate "harvest") with a proper, trilled [r], as opposed to the alveolar approximant which is heard in most dialects, but not my native one.

In English, I always trip over my tongue when trying to pronounce clusters of /Tr/. Guybrush Threepwood, anyone?

[Jipí]

[Tr\] is one mofo of a combination. It always trips me up as well.

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[Astraios]

I usually seem to have dental [t] for /Tr/, not a /T/.

[Ser]

Do English speakers find Spanish lenited /dɾ/ difficult? Para dragones [ˈpa.ɾa ðɾa.ˈɣo.nes].

[Astraios]

This one doesn't. It's just like pronouncing /Tr/ (which I can do fine, even though I usually don't) except with a funny accent.

[dunomapuka]

[Tr\] is one mofo of a combination. It always trips me up as well.

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Occasional American speakers will turn the r into an alveolar flap in this context. It's one of those weird features with a totally random distribution. (I've encountered only a handful of people who do this.)

[linguoboy]

What trips me up with /r/ is having it too close to /x/. I hate having to say gracht, so of course in Amsterdam they put it in all the damn street names. At least the Germans have the decency to vocalise postvocalic /r/, but that still doesn't help you when it comes to Rache or hochrechnen.