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I am of a different mind set.

I don't care about typos, and I generally do not care how people pronounce words.

I mispronounce words all of the time. In my case, it is because I learn new words via reading, and I don't always look up the pronunciation of them. So I will say the word incorrectly verbally, and I appreciate it when someone helps me learn how to say it correctly.

When some people speak, their minds are working ahead of voice, and this causes them to mispronounce a word.

Some people stutter. That can cause words to be said incorrectly.

Some have legitimate speech impediments.

For me, as long as I have an idea of what a person is talking about, in most cases, I won't correct them, and I won't be bothered about how they speak.

Also, there are regional dialect differences.

I pronounce "cement" as "sment".

Potato as po-tayda.

Tomato as toe-mayda.

Capicola as gabbagool (sort of...I say capicola so fast, that it sounds like gabbagool a little). In that case, it's like how my Italian family says it. Most Americans say "manicotti". I pronounce it as ManiGOT, because that is how I learned to say it.

I think language variations are very interesting.