I can’t say wrought iron. My husband always giggles when I say those words. He will point it out and ask how do you say this? Part of the problem is that the combination of those two words makes my southern accent very noticeable. The words are drawn way out. When I speak slowly, my accent creeps into the conversation. When I am talk without my accent, I tend to talk too fast. Over the last ten years I have come to accept that I have an accent and that is okay. I would rather have an accent than speak at the sound of light, thus making sure I was never understood. My fear of sounding like an uneducated hick (This is what I was called.) can be completely blamed on the WITCH. We moved north right before the 5th grade. The WITCH was my 5th grade English teacher, who apparently felt it was her duty to get rid of my southern accent. I think she was disappointed that I didn’t wear petticoats or refer to the Civil War as the War of Northern Aggression. I was tempted to call her a carpetbagger and a few other choice names. That woman made my life hell for one whole year. I learned to talk at the same speed my mind was working and that made my accent less noticeable. Less accent meant the WITCH stayed off my back. The words I have never been able to get right are wrought iron. I can’t say these words fast and when I say it slowly I sound like the offspring of married first cousins. I have practiced the words and I just think I have a mental block that prevents me from pronouncing them properly. My mom can’t say Vietnamese or aluminum, so she never talks about Vietnam and she calls aluminum foil, Reynold’s wrap. Do you have a word that you just can’t ever get right?