of these ones blow my mind. I mean, "tchaos", seriously? PS I love reading these kinds of articles' comments board just for all the self styled pedants (or "peddan'ts", thank you Eric) making stupid mistakes regardless. PPS Megan^ is a dick, I'd rather be a stereotype than come up with the damn things. Jim on December 7, 2008 6:32 am What about the question words like when, what, where, and why? I remember I had an English teacher in elementary school who always used to pronounced an the H sound before the words. CJ on December 7, 2008 6:41 am While I do understand the frustration of mispronunciation (I cringe when I hear aks instead of ask), I can only describe much of this list as pretentious. Before anyone starts ripping on other people's pronunciation, he or she should take into consideration accents (the reason why I never actually say anything about those irritating pronunciations) and, oh yeah, dipthongs. Medieval, eh? And while, yes, you did have some fair points on additions/deletion of syllables, I really don't know how to take "to pronounce [the h in vehicle] is to sound hicky" as pretentious and ridiculous since "hicky" isn't even a word. Regarding the last comment about "white people," who the hell do you think you are? I would LOVE for you to tell me what race I am. Oh, wait. You would have no idea sitting at your computer feeling all offended that there are people who value the ability