My sister pronounced "awry" as "AW-ree" for a long time. It cracked me up. She also once had a chemistry teacher that pronounces "molecules" (normally mall-uh-kyools) as "mall-uh-cleez". Never figured that one out.
(With apologies to IPA-pushers...)
"mall"? Well, I'd say that bit as "moll", for a start... But that's because I'd pronounce "Mall" (shopping centre) as "Marl"/"Maal" or "Mal", rather than "Mawl"/"Morl" or "Mol", but then that's because it's (essentially) an American word (and that's the American accent I've heard it said in, most), for which the correct UK pronunciation
is "Shopping Centre" for the 'common' usage. i.e. excluding that stretch of road outside Buckingham Palace that has no shops at all on it, which is definitely "Mal", but now I can hear in my head some (contrary) American accents pronouncing it "Mol"...
Yup, that's why we need IPA. Pity I'm too impatient to copy'n'paste the relevant symbols!
Whilst we're at it: Nottingham is pronounced Notting'um gosh darn it. For reference:
It's pronounced "A redurn diggit to Dottingum, plead!", to which the standard liturgical response is "TUNES!"[/ancientculturalreference]
...two commonly excepted accepted (it was a long night shift) ...
Just got there before me (oh, and Siquo, I see). Was unsure whether to say anything, but now I will, to congratulate you on
knowing what was wrong, and commiserate you for your thinko, to which[1] I am all too prone.
[1] For which? Of which? No, none of them, really, because context makes it look like it's the specific thinko, not the
general thinko event, in which I have exhibited a 'pronality' And I also typed "all to prone", but that was a typo, and I caught it before sending, unlike all the others.[/derailsorry!]