Let me start:
>Happisburgh
>pronounced as [HAYS-bruh]
So how many generations to I have to consume bacon and crisps for to fuck up that royally, chaps?
>two Ls make an I sound
>>57257184
The entire Tibetan language.
>So if you see Tibetan transliterated directly on the basis of what the letters stand for, you'll see the word for "accomplished" spelled bsgrubs but you'll hear it said like drup. There's a school of Tibetan Buddhism that is spelled bka'brgyud that's usually rendered in English how it's actually said: as Kagyu. Have you heard of the Buddhist scholar Chögyam Trungpa? The Tibetan spelling of his name comes out as Chos rgyam Drung pa.
Also, Mongolian
>In Mongolia, the Mongolian language is now usually spelled reasonably phonetically using the Cyrillic alphabet. But Mongolian speakers in China still use the old Mongolian alphabet, and the pronunciation has slipped far away from that. The word for "coal," spelled like neguresu, is pronounced like nuurs. "Goat," spelled imaga, is said as jamaa.
>comparison
>[comparsion]
I hear this pretty often actually to be honest
>>57257184
>Greenwich
>"Graynich"
>>57260572
it's "grennich" actually
>>57260572
>ouvreauvouseau
>pronounced "oov"
>>57260606
still fucked-up
English is the most fucked up language
>>57260606
This. Even more silly though. And Britain is full of those kinds of things, from Worcester and all the other cesters like Gloucester..
As for Dutch, it's pretty phonetic, so most things sound the way you spell them (especially if you're aware of Dutch vowel-combinations like oe, ou, ij, ei and ui which have specific vowel sounds in those combinations) but foreigners still struggle with place names like Scheveningen and 's-Gravenhagen (more commonly known as 'Den Haag' these days) or 's-Hertogenbosch (aka Den Bosch)
https://translate.google.nl/?hl=nl#auto/nl/'s-gravenhage.%20's-hertogenbosch.%20scheveningen.
Most foreigners cannot into our G/CH sound.
>>57257184
in the Japanese spelling before 1945,
choochoo (butterfly) is written as 'tefutefu'
deshou (will, i guess) 'deseu'
oogi (fan) 'afugi'
kao (face) 'kafo'
gakkou (school) 'guaku kau'
>>57261119
>choochoo
>tfw western dodesukaden
so-uh, why? I mean, such disparity between written word and pronunciation.
>>57260572
why are you even using consonants in the end of words, mon ami?
>>57260572
My candidate for most fucked up one
>Worcester
>Woosuh
>>57265068
Surely they spell it as [woos-ter], no?
Or at least [woosh-ter], if you're Sean Connery
Speaking of which
>Sean, Geoff
>spells exactly like Shaun, Jeff
seriously, what is wrong with you, guys?
>>57265225
I guess those are based on some Irish or Welsh source which are even more fucked up (lots of silent sounds as well as trigraphs)
Arkansas used to trigger me
>>57265068
please vocaroo "worcestershire" or "leicestershire"
>>57265463
i tried
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1XwAGBFbGo4
>>57265805
lel
>>57257184
>Albuquerque
>pronounced Albakurky
>mfw portuguese doesn't has these problems
>mfw foreigners trying to pronounce "Sens"
>>57266085
same here
>>57265805
kek of de day m8
>>57259328
tfw heating with goats
>>57257184
>Eritrea
>PPronounced EHH-RIHH-TREYY-UHHH with every syllable elongated as much as possible
Why tho
>>57259328
That's fucking neato.
>>57265068
I live near Worcester MA and this still confuses the fuck out of everyone.
>>57266093
sane or seen?
>>57266093
I cheated and looked it up. Holy fuck
>>57260778
Well, if you must know, "gh" was once pronounced like your "ch".
>>57260778
Yeah I feel bad for everyone that has to learn it.
By the way, German's pretty nice. It's an acquired taste, I know, but the pronunciation is so straightforward. I love it.
>>57266093
Sah with nasal ah.
>>57269805
at least with our "ch" its always clear how it's pronounced
soft "sh" after e i ä ö ü and throat cancer after a o u
>>57266093
It's pronounced as "san", isn't it?
>>57270088
nein
>Le ronronnement du moteur de la voiture de George le ravissait.
I'd like to here you say this
>>57270309
Le ronronnement du moteur de la voiture de George le ravissait.
>>57270383
thanks
>>57270395
de rien famalam
>>57270309
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Z3lpzUvape
=)
>>57257184
Any English word of French origin (nation pronounced "naye-shun", forest pronounced "fuh-west"...etc)
Any English word ending in "tre", "ddle, "ttle"
>>57270519
not bad
The name of this woman. What the fuck were they thinking?
>>57260572
>>57265068
>Russia
>Wshuh
>>57270144
Comment est-ce ?
>>57271594
Like this >>57269973 but with the final S pronounced
>>57266093
>final s for some random reason NOT silent like usual
tricky desu
>>57265463
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1P2OOwV4CPm
>>57271675
They have a bunch of deviant words like this, eg fils.
No time like the present to present the present.
:^)
