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carnation 05-16-2011 01:59 PM

phrases you can't spit out
 
Does anyone else have phrases that you just can't get right when you say them? The two that have fried me for years:

-trap crop (it's an agricultural term when you plant a crappy crop around a valuable one and hope that the bugs will eat that one and be satisfied before they get to the good one, obviously I say 'crap trop')

-back fat (fack bat)

preciousjeni 05-16-2011 02:10 PM

I saw a tongue twister on FB in the not too distant past. I can't say it at normal speed no matter what I do: Irish Wrist Watch.

carnation 05-16-2011 02:22 PM

I just thought of another one, the name of something in the school cafeteria last year: Wild West Wrap. Don't even get me started on my efforts with that one.

thetaj 05-16-2011 02:34 PM

I can't say substitute teacher, but I think it's just me.

Ch2tf 05-16-2011 02:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by preciousjeni (Post 2056212)
I saw a tongue twister on FB in the not too distant past. I can't say it at normal speed no matter what I do: Irish Wrist Watch.


Just tried it, I so can't say it at a normal speed either. Its like my brain hiccups or something.

OneHeartOneWay 05-16-2011 03:37 PM

I can't say "CrackerBarrel," the restaurant. It comes out CrackelBarrel EVERY time, no matter how much I concentrate on it!

Mevara 05-16-2011 03:38 PM

For some reason I always have a problem with "rear wheel" as in a car's rear wheel. I just end up saying wheel wheel.

carnation 05-16-2011 03:49 PM

My husband once said "far apart" as "par afart" in front of a middle school class (bad mistake) and has never been able to say it right since then.

aephi alum 05-16-2011 09:52 PM

There is a drinking game called "Fuzzy Duck". You and your friends sit in a circle, and you say either "Fuzzy Duck" (if the direction of play is clockwise), "Ducky Fuzz" (if counterclockwise), or "Duzzy" (to reverse direction of play). Mess up and you drink. The two most popular phrases spoken when messing up are left as an exercise for the reader...


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