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I've always been less than impressed with word bigots who some how feel the need to not just correct, but apparently denigrate others. Quickly they move to the bottom of the list of folks I want to know, and to the top, of the ones to ignore..
In the spunkier time of my life, I would purposely say things just to taunt them.
One that will get them every time is saying "thigh" when talking about your favorite Thi restaurant. When they can't make you say it right, veins start popping from their necks.
Some folks are a little too uptight about such things. Some misspellings bug me, and especially common punctuation errors (an apostrophe in a plural is my pet peeve), but I try to never be a jerk about it.
I've been told a time or two that my speech betrays my rural upbringing, so I would never mock someone else for the way they talk.
I know this is different from pronunciation issues, but sometimes I will deliberately use the word "clip" in reference to a magazine. Yes, I full-well know the difference; I just think some people get way too worked up about that one.