Published on 12, July, 2020
Those with autism often struggle to pronounce words (or regularly mispronounce them) What is this called?
I have the problem of both noticing other people mispronounce words and finding it difficult preventing myself from correcting them. My bugbears include: 'sicth' for sixth, 'joolry' or 'joolery' for jewellery and the universal spread of the Cockney/Estuary English glottal stop, that replaces medial 'T' sounds; where water becomes 'wa*er' and bottle becomes bo*uw'.
Local accents are a thing of beauty
This isn't about accents or enunciation but more about difficulty saying certain words and mis-pronouncing them (over extended period of time) which may be due to the way words are heard/perceived.