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Do you have difficulty pronouncing some words?

I can never pronounce Massachusetts.
Hell ! I tried 馃ぃ

[media=https://vocaroo.com/1dus7MRfhfb8]

Another try

[media=https://vocaroo.com/1fSfP2RJL6xw]

Last try

[media=https://vocaroo.com/18d2CdVJO3JU]
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
Not so bad!
It was many years before I figured out Episcopal (I had often seen it in print without hearing it pronounced). Now I am a pro with both Episcopal and Worcestershire. How do you do with Worcestershire?
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
@SW-User I am an American but it sounds very passable to me!
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
@SW-User it seems to me like the oo should be more like the sound in book?
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
@SW-User your pronunciation still does not sound enough like book to me. But a person from the United Kingdom might tell me I have it all wrong, so I should stop now. Regardless, your pronunciation of the word is better than at least 90% of Americans!
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
@SW-User that is exactly how I thought it was supposed to be!
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
@SW-User I think you have it!
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
Some of your attempts sound to me exactly like the online recording, some slightly different.
If I would try to pronounce something Indian I would be utterly laughable.
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Poppies 路 61-69, F
@SW-User that would be good! But I have never used vocaroo. First I will familiarize myself with that!
I saw the movie Lion, about an Indian boy who was lost in one part of India and ended up in another part where they spoke a different language. He was adopted by an Australian couple but managed to do his own detective work as an adult to figure out where he came from!
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