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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think most of these examples qualify as pretentious.

I think it's pretentious when people are speaking English and suddenly pronounce a French or Spanish word like a native speaker. Or if they have a name like Suzanne and insist that you pronounce it "SuzAHN"

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Pak EEE stahn [/quote]

Alex Trebek (Jeopardy) does this all the time and my husband and I always groan.  He *has* to pronounce any foreign word with a flamboyant accent, just so the audience knows how intelligent he is.   :roll: [/quote]

See this kind of thing would never occur to me that people are taking personally. To be fair, he is Canadian and this is a common thing there. When you are more well travelled or grow up surrounded by various nationalities and languages it becomes second nature to pronounce things correctly and you don't do it to piss people off, you do it because that is how the words are pronounced. When people don't pronounce words correctly (eg EYE-RACK instead of Iraq) that is when you get made fun of like "I'm going to pronounce your FOREIGN words the 'MERICAN way!"[/quote]

People often do it to remove ownership of the word. They mispronounce it on purpose, at least the military guys I work with do, on purpose.[/quote]

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