Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
I totally agree with you guys Hursti and gantz!

Then there's people who use American pronunciation... one of my colleagues has a very broad Australian accent, but he pronounces "interesting" the American way; i.e. "in-ter-ress-ting" instead of "in-chress-ting." It sounds really bad because he has such a thick broad Australian accent... just does NOT mix! A lot of kids are now referring to the library as the "lye-breh-ree" instead of "lye-bree." *sigh* Australian English is surely mutating into American English. Whatever... I'll stick with "inchressting" and "lye-bree", thank you very much.
Goktimus, you're the one lazily pronouncing words - both your versions have lost syllables due to syncope. The only way the students are likely to be mispronouncing library is if they call it a liberry.

My American pronunciation bugbear is "congradulations". It makes people sound like morons. Plus apparently something like 2,580,000 morons have mistyped the word that way if Google's "About 2,580,000 results" is correct.