I very rarely meet anyone who says “truck” - most people I know say “chruck” and when they say “truck” it sounds very forced. Same with other words that start with “tr”. They push the word through their teeth rather than putting their tongue on the roof of their mouth.

Enunciation is key.

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I’ve never paid mind to it, but I think I pronounce it like you do. If I focus on not hitting the sh sound it sounds English, my normal accent is West-coast American.

Straw, strength, strip, all of those words I place a blending sh sound before the tr sound. If anything it might sound closest to ‘schrawberry’.

Interesting! I’ll pay attention to how others say it going forward.

Babes, I think you might be saying it wrong. The s in straw is the same as the s in snake

You’re saying it wrong…

I think you might be the only one …

shounds like a shtupid shuggestion to me

There’s no SH sound in strawberry, you’re just pronouncing it wrong. (And that’s something I almost never say, as language is always changing).

See the pronunciation guide here for “straw”, and click on the speaker, you’ll hear the correct pronunciation.

You’ve got a lisp

This might be a cannabis thought…

That’s shilly. Jusht shtop.

Hmmm… nope.

I think this way of speaking developed in the USA over the last 30 years or so.

I saw a video about that a few months ago how people seem to put the sh sound into more and more places. Like they don’t say stormtrooper, they say shtormshtrooper. Can’t find it anymore and don’t remember the channel.

To me it sounds weird. We learned this as a distinct difference to German that it’s straw and not shtraw, like it would be pronounced in German.

Do you have this problem only with “strawberry” or also with “straw” alone? What about other words beginning with str-, like street or straight?

My first language doesn’t have syllable-initial st-, yet pronouncing any of these words is no problem for me at all in English.

I prefer spelling it with an extra “Raw”