Guilty as charged. I was born with some "defects" one being ankyloglossia ( where the frenulum is too short or thick, which restricts the movement of the tongue). So I had a my tongue clipped (frenotomy, is a surgical procedure that involves cutting the lingual frenulum, a thin band of tissue that connects the bottom of the tongue to the floor of the mouth). I then had speech therapy. Any word with an "r", "th" "ph" and others presented a problem. Decades later I moved to Southwest Virginia and realized, I didn't need to have all that speech therapy all I had to do was move.
Guilty as charged. I was born with some "defects" one being ankyloglossia ( where the frenulum is too short or thick, which restricts the movement of the tongue). So I had a my tongue clipped (frenotomy, is a surgical procedure that involves cutting the lingual frenulum, a thin band of tissue that connects the bottom of the tongue to the floor of the mouth). I then had speech therapy. Any word with an "r", "th" "ph" and others presented a problem. Decades later I moved to Southwest Virginia and realized, I didn't need to have all that speech therapy all I had to do was move.
The most common ridiculous mispronunciation I hear repeatedly is: impordent. Im-por-dent. Seems important to me anyway.
I'll happily ass to the list: Concierge is pronounced with the soft g sound at the end. It is not more 'continental' to stop short of that.
Realtor is basically 2.5 syllables, not three, like real-i-tor.
And then there are the silly misunderstandings people have for words like Array instead of Awry and misusing Resonate.