Mispronunciations that hurt your ears...

Both of them are correct for the past tense of  learn. Learned  used in both British English and American English, while learnt is much more common in British English than in American English.

The local news I watch in the mornings has a reporter that constantly says "impordant" . Drives me crazy!

I have two Facebook friends who do this as well! Why?!?

I used to work with a lady that would say "tor-till-as". Instead of tor-tee-uhs. Every time we had tacos!

I know! I didn't realize I had so much that bothered me until I started reading. Ouch!!!

So what is the correct pronunciations?

I say it like PEA-uh-knees - with the emphasis on the first syllable.

GAH!!!  This bugs me too!!  There's only one!!  LOL 

One of my co-workers says quesa-deelos. Internally I'm screaming It's QUESA-DEE-UH!!!

As I was reading, I thought of several but, of course, now I can't think of any other than "for sell" when it's "for SALE" I can't even tell you how many times I have seen that on marketplace groups!!

My step mother is from Perth and she would add 'lippy' for lipstick, but our favorite is "Mr. Whippy" for the ice cream man. 

De planes! De planes!

I’ve tried to walk away from this multiple times, but I just can’t. A “lower class,” really? We are back to placing people in classes?

Illiterate means “unable to read or write.” To place someone in that category simply based on them using annoying shortened versions of words is, in and of itself, pretty dumb. Uneducated, fine. Though it is possible to recognize that someone might be uneducated, or undereducated, without judging them for it. 

To judge people that speak this way on purpose as being ridiculous hipsters is one thing. But the whole “of a lower class” comment is bullshit. And to speak about people who are uneducated and undereducated as if they were a bug on your shoe and beneath you is pretty awful and gross. And it completely ignores the fact that peoples’ educational experiences are heavily influenced by their social economic background, of which they had no control. Chances are many of them do not even realize they are wrong because they are surrounded by people with the same background.

My daughter has/had a severe speech delay/disorder. She has overcome this by about 80%. She has a GPA that is 99.3% heading into high school. We have worked so hard, no one could understand her at all until she was about 8 years old without a close friend or family there to translate. She was a very rare case of childhood apraxia of speech coupled with a severe articulation disorder  yet she  was not on spectrum or have sensory issues etc. Even now she still has vowel distortions and difficulties with other combinations. So many of the words mentioned here are words connected to these patterns. Even worse, they make me cringe some days. Then it makes me sad for her. She is a super bright socially outgoing girl with lots of friends. This is a small town though, where she is well known. I worry about the job interviews, I worry about presentations in college. I worry about her adovocating for herself vs the appearance of excuses. I worry about people thinking she "dumb" or "lower class" because of things she can't control. One thing the speech classes seem to have helped with is that she doesn't have a southern dialect like her brother because she is always hyper aware of articulation.ETA:  because let's face it because it's socially acceptable to see people with a strong southern dialect are as lacking intelligence.