Do you get annoyed when people pronounce words differently?

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What's very annoying is when people use "there" instead of "their", or "their" instead of "they're". Seriously, what the hell?

Yes, but only when people are directly saying it wrong. I used to correct people, but now I only do it with close friends.

I automatically correct people when they mispronounce a word. it is like a raging compulsion in me!
I do not like that I do it. I do it to my son, his father and also beyond the home.

I think some correction or guidance in pronunciation is actually o within the home. But I would like to do so with more gentleness and subtlety, without hurting those I care about. I tend to bark the correct pronunciation at them while they are talking and so I interrupt and see the correction as far more important than the meaning of the communication they are trying to convey to me.

Stuck on details...yet again.

kara [empty] oke [slang for orchestra]- karaoke.
NOT "kare-ee-oki"

folk who do not even bother to attempt trilling their R's when saying foreign words.
[exception being folk who lack the gene for rolling their R's]- also singers who harden their R's while singing "the little drummer boy" ["bar-r-r-r-RRRummPaPahPAH-"- the rolled R's are meant to emulate drum rolls performed by the "little drummer boy"- so when they harden the R's like "eerrrr" it sounds bad]

the way many british folk deliberately butcher french words ["GEHraj" when saying "garage"]

saying "oreGONE" instead of "oregon" [many tv announcers are guilty of this]

too many others to list.

I am annoyed by my boyfriend quite a bit... because he just keeps saying some words entirely wrong! lol.

I've gotten used to it, and he's gotten used to me correcting it every time he says it, though... but it's still really irritating.

I hate when people pronounce the word Pædophile as Ped-o-phile. It has nothing to do with varianting accents, pronouncing it the latter way is just wrong. I mean, I''ve never heard anyone say Ped-iatrition. The æ thing is supposed to be pronouced as "ee" dammit. Like in in enclopædia.

Gawd, of all the words I could get annoyed about...

I came across this in a google search. I was reading the thread agreeing with the annoying things and then I noticed it says "General Autism Discussion". Really? Do you guys know that non-autistic people get annoyed at this stuff, too? Anyway, I decided to create an account because I do have tendencies toward Asperger's. Maybe I can learn something about myself here. =)
And yes, mispronunciation of words can be very annoying.
I had a friend who would say "ephisode" instead of episode. She was a really close friend so I took some time helping her to pronounce it right. If she used the "ph" sound, she would say "ephisode". If she used the "p" sound she could only pronounce it "e-pee-sode". She otherwise could not pronounce it correctly no matter what we did. I have a hard time understanding this. I want to get it, but I can't wrap my brain around it, lol!

Ebonics ran rampant in my high school. People's pronunciations weren't just different; their grammar was downright awful. Every day, I'd hear things like, "Hey, dat be mine's!" or "I can borrow yo' cackuhlatuh?" or "She in da lie-berry". I usually don't mind slight linguistic differences, but it was like they were speaking an entirely different language.

Yes, very much so.

I'm not bothered so much by regionalisms, like "pin" for "pen," "worter" for "water," "pellow" for "pillow," etc. They grate slightly, though, because, c'mon, just say it properly already!

Straight up mispronunciations kill me, though. My husband had a few words that he never said correctly, until I pulled up the dictionary.com audio pronunciations for them. "Care-ICK-a-ture" for "caricature" and "per-SEVE-er" for "persevere" are two that come to mind.

I hate it when people put the emPHAsis on the wrong syLLABle. (Say it aloud and you'll get it.)

That said, I cannot, no matter how hard I try, physically say "Car-RIB-ian" for "Caribbean." I think it's wrong, and will go to my grave saying "CARE-i-BEE-an."