What was That Again?

I am very annoyed by people who mispronounce simple, everyday words.  This annoyance is probably amusing to those who know me well as I am extremely dyslexic and therefore often jumble up my words in amusing fashion. But I like to consider my particular strain of foot and mouth disease to be a matter all it’s own.  What I’m talking about are normal every day words that are not switched up or even used improperly they are simply mispronounced.  I don’t consider it to be a dialect problem in most cases and if it were a matter of dialect… I appear to be annoyed by dialects that find certain letters in certain words to be somehow unnecessary. I can accept a silent “h” but not a silent “s” I mean some of the letters of the alphabet should have garnished a certain level of respect by now I would thing.  I’ll allow a silent “r” if you are from Massachusetts given the respect your state pays to the letter “s” just by existing, or if you are a child under three (that’s “free” or “dis many” in their dialect).

One of the words I hear butchered most often is fRustrated/fRustrating. People for some reason dislike the second letter of the word causing me to hear “fusstrating” a whole lot. And don’t get me started on the word ask, or why people in today’s world continue to pronounce it “axe.” No… you cannot “axe” me a question but I’d be happy to answer if you’d like to “asssssK” me one. Thank you… and good day. I think the thing I find odd about words like these being mispronounced is that often times the people who say them wrong can spell them correctly. These must be persons not fully or properly schooled in Phonics, or perhaps they have always said it funny and no one ever really corrected them. Then again perhaps there in a whole other reason I’m unaware of. I once knew a girl who for some strange reason couldn’t say “pumpkin” it always came out “punkin” and she knew it was wrong but was somehow powerless to stop herself.  So if anyone out there is reading this and knows they are guilty of such and offence please explain your affliction to me.  And I’ll take the time to explain why sometimes I can’t even form a complete sentence thanks to my dyslexia.  Trust me, I don’t claim to be a master of the language myself.

Also if while we’re at it someone can help me understand the difference between “affect” and “effect”. That would be great.