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Tiedrich on Trump's pronunciation difficulties: (Original Post)
tblue37
Aug 2020
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2naSalit
(86,534 posts)1. It might make him bite his tongue.
I'm with Jeff on this one all the way!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,673 posts)3. Or szyzygy. Or flocculation.
I once knew someone who pronounced anemone as anna-moan. I guess that's in the same category as Yo-Semite.
sl8
(13,736 posts)5. I used to have a similar issue with "hegemony".
I used to mentally mispronounce it as HEJ-uh-moany. I was well into adulthood before I reconciled the "hegemony" I saw in print with the "hegemony" I'd heard spoken.
Had a similar issue with "halcyon".
Sneederbunk
(14,289 posts)2. His handlers keep him way from Niger.
pamela
(3,469 posts)4. And Phuket
Although he would probably just pronounce it puh-huck-it.
catbyte
(34,372 posts)6. I'd buy a ticket to that.
Layzeebeaver
(1,623 posts)7. Jeff Tiedrich...
...A National Treasure
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)8. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣hmmmm, y'know in his head its cock6
3catwoman3
(23,972 posts)9. My older son had a language arts teacher who pronounced poignant...
...as "poyg-nint."
tblue37
(65,319 posts)10. Let's start referring to him as "Thrump." nt
Illumination
(2,458 posts)11. What about misogynistic nincompoop???.....