http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnglishAudioSpeechPronunciation/Forum22.htmBritish, American, Scottish accent or using super-fantastic-high-tech software, we'll help you with pronunciation.enCSMOD (Build: 3232.18851)http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/11/gqgdc/Post.htm#581521Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:47:06 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:581521Anonymous21http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/11/gqgdc/Post.htm#581521http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-581521.xmlI don&#39;t know if it&#39;s because it&#39;s hard to pronounce or simply that they learned it incorrectly, but I hear the word &quot;grocery&quot; mispronounced constantly, as if the &quot;c&quot; had an &quot;sh&quot; sound instead of an &quot;s&quot; sound.<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gqgdr/Post.htm#581519Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:43:39 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:581519Anonymous22http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gqgdr/Post.htm#581519http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-581519.xmlI found myself stumbling over &quot;meteorological&quot; the other day.<br /><br />I also find that those who transpose their r&#39;s and l&#39;s have a heck of a time dealing with &quot;rural.&quot;<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gpbzz/Post.htm#575200Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:59:32 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:575200zsofia23http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gpbzz/Post.htm#575200http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-575200.xmlHi there for me the necessaily and the suggestion.i don&#39;t know why because there aren&#39;t difficult words:P<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gprgz/Post.htm#574928Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:03:32 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:574928Tanit10http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gprgz/Post.htm#574928http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-574928.xmlHello minombreoriginal,<br /><br />Welcome to Englishforums! You can hear how this word is pronounced in some websites.<br />Here is <a href="http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=rendezvous&amp;submit=Submit">one of these sites</a> (Howjsay, BrE) and <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rendezvous">here another</a> (Merriam Webster, AmE - click on the red loudspeaker to hear the word pronounced).<br /><br /><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gprvp/Post.htm#574904Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:33:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:574904minombreoriginal24http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gprvp/Post.htm#574904http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-574904.xmlRendezvous, I don&#39;t know how to pronounce this word<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/3/gxlkd/Post.htm#573260Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:37:51 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:573260karina_psy75http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/3/gxlkd/Post.htm#573260http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-573260.xmlAvailable is extremely difficult for me.<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/gxlgn/post.htm#573202Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:48:49 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:573202Anonymous82http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/gxlgn/post.htm#573202http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-573202.xmltintinabulation<br /><br />(the sound of bells chiming)<br /><br />was that your word?<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/3/gxccl/Post.htm#570531Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:01:11 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:570531Tanit71http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/3/gxccl/Post.htm#570531http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-570531.xml<br />Hi,<br /><br /><BLOCKQUOTE><div><img src="/Themes/englishforums/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>Yoong Liat</strong></div><div>I think that non-natives would find it hard to pronounce &#39;rendezvous&#39;.</div></BLOCKQUOTE><br /><br />Not those who have some knowledge (even a very basic one) of French pronunciation, since English has borrowed it from French.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.englishforums.com/emoticons/emotion-1.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><br />This word is used also in Italian (here&#39;s the <a href="http://www.demauroparavia.it/92591">entry in a dictionary</a>), but it&#39;s not that common.<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxblk/Post.htm#570394Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:16:24 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:570394Yoong Liat72http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxblk/Post.htm#570394http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-570394.xml<p>I think that non-natives would find it hard to pronounce &#39;rendezvous&#39;.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxblj/Post.htm#570393Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:13:50 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:570393Yoong Liat73http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxblj/Post.htm#570393http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-570393.xml<p>Hi Kooyeen</p> <p>I mean, without referring to the dictionary,&nbsp;do you think many people&nbsp;will pronounce the &#39;s&#39;.&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxblw/Post.htm#570392Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:04:42 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:570392Kooyeen74http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxblw/Post.htm#570392http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-570392.xml<br /><BLOCKQUOTE><div><img src="/Themes/englishforums/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>Yoong Liat</strong></div><div>I don&#39;t know whether this word can be considered hard to pronounce -- <em>islet.</em></div></BLOCKQUOTE><br />Hi,<br />is it difficult? Merriam Webster says it sounds like &quot;I lit&quot;.<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxrdk/Post.htm#569969Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:17:09 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569969Yoong Liat76http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/2/gxrdk/Post.htm#569969http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-569969.xml<p>I don&#39;t know whether this word can be considered hard to pronounce -- <em>islet.</em></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/3/gnqvp/Post.htm#569702Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:59:07 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:569702Anonymous68http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/3/gnqvp/Post.htm#569702http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-569702.xmlno, it is a mispronunciation.&nbsp; Circular, muscular, etc, are all spelled that way because that&#39;s how it&#39;s PRONOUNCED.&nbsp; &quot;Nuclear&quot; is not spelled &quot;Nucular.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /><br />Going by your logic I could pronounce &quot;cheese&quot; as &quot;horse ***&quot; and it would be considered a &quot;regional difference.&quot;<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gmmrh/Post.htm#563557Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:17:30 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:563557Anonymous25http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gmmrh/Post.htm#563557http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-563557.xmlerm antidisestablishmentarianism or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis lol<div style="clear:both;"></div>http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gknkz/Post.htm#554188Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:07:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:554188Yoong Liat13http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestWordsPronounce/10/gknkz/Post.htm#554188http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments22-554188.xml<p><BLOCKQUOTE><div><img src="/Themes/englishforums/images/icon-quote.gif"> <strong>Anonymous</strong></div><div>hippapotamus <div></div></div></BLOCKQUOTE><strong>hippopotamus</strong> is also difficult to spell.<div style="clear:both;"></div>