I found a sentence earlier containing the word 言いだしづら but I parsed it to 2
words and I found I did not know 言いだし so I looked it up and found 言いだす (which
I know the meaning of), but I also found another site saying 言いだし is the same
thing basically, but I don't know why there is a し. Is this a different word
or a conjugation I forgot?
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What is the difference between 言いだし and 言いだす?
言いだし is the continuative form (連用形) of 言いだす ([言]{い}い[出]{だ}す).

> Examples:  
>  dictionary form - continuative form  
>  [言]{い}う - 言 **い**  
>  [出]{だ}す - 出 **し**  
>  言いだす - 言いだ **し**  
>  する - **し**  
>  わかる - わか **り**

「[Continuative form of a verb] + づらい」 means "hard/difficult to [Verb]".  
づらい comes from an i-adjective **つ** らい ([辛]{つら}い), "painful, difficult, tough,
hard". The つ gets voiced into づ due to
[[連濁]{れんだく}](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/2526/9831).

> Examples:  
>  言う + つらい → 言 **い** づらい "hard to say"  
>  言いだす + つらい → 言いだ **し** づらい "hard to start talking / hard to speak out"  
>  わかる + つらい → わか **り** づらい "hard to understand"  
>  外出する + つらい → 外出 **し** づらい "hard to go out"
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