Well but our friends at Dictionary Com tell us that the ‘mutual’ pronunciation is ‘not standard’ but not illegal. I think it came from stretching out the chi sound to sshhhiii which lazily modulated to shu.
At any rate, it doesn’t bother me nearly as much as the ‘tata’ syndrome; adding more 'ta’s into words like orient (‘orientate’ - AUGH) or turning nouns into verbs: ‘let’s action that’. Not to mention people who have utterly lost the ability to spell ‘lose’ ‘peek’, and ‘pique’.
And then theres the total misuse of apostrophes and contractions and let’s not forget …
Oh man, I never knew. I thought I was a pretty smart guy too, but I guess this calls all that into question.
Well, I’m off to go flagellate myself with the old cat-o’-nine-tails. A thousand lashes should cover it, right? I’ll post again in a few days when I recover.