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"Subtle". I can not pronounce it in a way that it sounds different to "saddle".
Does it sound like "bat" when you say "butt"?
Subtle is spelled weird, but rhymes with muddle. Do you also pronounce "mad" and "mud" the same way? With my accent they have the same first vowel sounds as saddle and subtle
Pretty sure subtle rhymes with shuttle.
Sure, but shuttle also rhymes with muddle in my East coast US accent, at least in normal conversation. I can force myself to slow down and really enunciate the T, but even then the difference is easy to miss.
According to the Macmillan they are [หsสt(ษ)l] vs [หsรฆd(ษ)l], so the vowel changes slightly, but it depends on the speaker; I'm not native but I say saddle with a more open "a". But they're otherwise almost identical to me (in the British pronunciation included in the dictionary I hear a "t" both times, in the American one a "d" both times - which is how I say it too)
Genuine. I still wonder if I pronounced it correctly every time I use the word.
"Three" and "thread". Not because of the th, that's never been a problem (I learnt the basics very early in life when pronunciation was easy to learn), but because my mouth somehow wouldn't go from "th" to "r". It was only a few years ago when it suddenly clicked. Weirdly, I never had an issue saying "through" and "threat".
I've heard "rug" is weird for many Europeans
I tie my mouth into knots trying to pronounce world without sounding overly posh.
For some reason I always trip up when saying "I appreciate it"
I feel like a lot of people just drop the "I a" and say "'preciate it!", lol
(That's assuming you're using it like "thank you", and aren't just starting a sentence)
"Lapel" was an interesting find. That and "development" really hammered in the importance of accentuation. I'm still unsure of what I want to do with "schedule". "Burger" sometimes sounds off when I say it.
Schedule depends on where you'd like to blend into. You've got:
Possibly more! I think the ones with two syllables sound most common/least specific to a dialect. SK is more American and SH is more UK.
Idea. Still not sure if I rponounce the "ea" correctly...
eye-dee-uh
It was I, Dia.