Li-berry. Hate that.
LOL, I almost mentioned that one too. 
That one apparently goes back to the 16th century. If hundreds of years of harshly prescriptivist Oxford dons haven’t been able to kill it, you can bet you’re fighting a losing battle. Just give in already - Satan will grant you your own throne in Hell if you just say mis-CHEE-vee-us once. Publicly 
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I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone pronounce it with the other R.
Do you say Wed-nes-day, too? 
I always do. Though I suppose I might put a phantom W in there. Feb-ru-wary.
Again, it’s more common to pronounce it without the second R but it sounds wrong to me.
According to the dictionary both are correct.
I pronounce it “Wenz-day” because that’s how it’s supposed to be pronounced. The D is silent.
(Sometimes I want to call it Woden’s Day but I never do.)
I also don’t say “new-que-lar” for nuclear.
Boy, I keep trying, and I can barely pronounce it with that R. I can’t consistently pronounce “Rory”, either. I definitely can’t say “rural juror”.
Try “feh-brew-wary” which is how I pronounce it if I pay attention and dissect how I say it.
Try singing it!
Can you say “Constance Justice”?
Try “soldier’s shoulder” a few times. That makes “rural juror” seem easy.
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I think it’s the other way around. My theory is that members of whatever social group is in control will always be prescriptivists, even if they weren’t before, because “proper language” serves as a useful gatekeeper. This happens in every culture. It’s inevitable, and unavoidable, and there’s nothing anyone can do to change it. Even if you “break” the rules, all you’ll do is create new rules everyone now has to follow. The only thing you can do is learn the rules, because if you can’t beat them, join them.
‘Proper language’ serves as a gatekeeper for the top social classes, not society as a whole. That’s why creolization is a thing, that’s why linguae franca are different from their pure parents, that’s why Romance languages aren’t Latin and were already developing that way when Romans still ruled.
Exactly. When the upper classes correct other people’s grammar, they don’t do it to improve them, they do it to put them in their place. The last thing they want is for everyone to speak “properly”, because that way they won’t be able to keep the riffraff out. That’s also why you should learn the “proper” language, in addition to your own dialect.
Sure. It’s one reason I normally have an RP accent.
Doesn’t mean I don’t code-switch, and see the value of each English dialect I speak and accent I use, though.
Or Urban Ferver.
That’s quite the fine straw man you’ve constructed there. It’s certainly true that language is to some extent correlated with education and social standing, but that’s not the point here. First of all, I’ve never known anyone, ever, in real life who corrects someone else’s grammar. (We do it here on the Dope because it’s the Dope, and it’s all in fun.) And secondly, are you seriously trying to claim that a publication like Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage, now in its fourth edition from the Oxford Reference Library, is not intended to educate but is merely an ignominious disparagement of alleged lower classes? Or that William Safire wrote his famed “On Language” column for the New York Times merely to validate his societal pedigree? Standards in all forms of communication exist for good and valid practical reasons.
I agree with that but not entirely. Modern democracies make an effort to educate everyone to be able to use the standard version, though not everyone learns it equally well.
I never pronounce any of these, but I see “homage” often enough to know how I pronounce it in my head. It depends on how you’re using it. I read it as “paying HOMM-idge” to someone, but making an artistic “ooh-MAJ” to someone else’s work. I think it is because they scan better that way.
Boy is @wolfpup wrong on this linguistics stuff. He’s enjoyable in his wrongness. It’s some of the most entertaining wrongness I’ve seen recently. Please, keep it up! I want to read more of this fabulous wrongness!
I do love you, wolfie, but sometimes your wrongness is absolutely hilarious, like when you insisted smartphones weren’t a type of computer: Do you carry your cell phone with you at home? - #109 by wolfpup
Which is based on a need for the participants in the democratic polity, to be able to participate in the business of the society, to understand what is being said and meant by the others.