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[Vattic]

Aluminium. 

It's not really about pronunciation considering there are two commonly excepted accepted (it was a long night shift) spellings of the word. If you look at the Periodic Table of Elements you'll find things named both ways.

Aluminum as in: Platinum, Molybdenum, Lanthanum, Tantalum (that's all of them).

Or

Aluminium like: Iridium, Uranium, Einsteinium (and many more).

[rarborman]

Molybdenum... I literally have no idea why I tried to pronounce it like moldbendenum.

And its always Michigander unless your a youpper, damn Michiganites.

[Kedly]

Moh lib den uhm?

[Siquo]

Aluminium. 

commonly excepted spellings of the word

Except that excepted isn't generally accepted for accepted. Besides, only the US considers "-um" to be anywhere near correct.

Now look at the elements you just mentioned, and whether there's an "i" before the "um". To paraphrase Eddie Izzard: Because there's a fucking "i" in it.

Oh oh oh I've got another: butchering ancient languages. In school I was taught that the man who wrote the Ilias was called Homerus. When I learned the English pronunciation of his name, I went D'oh!

[Vattic]

Except that excepted isn't generally accepted for accepted. Besides, only the US considers "-um" to be anywhere near correct.

Now look at the elements you just mentioned, and whether there's an "i" before the "um". To paraphrase Eddie Izzard: Because there's a fucking "i" in it.

Oh oh oh I've got another: butchering ancient languages. In school I was taught that the man who wrote the Ilias was called Homerus. When I learned the English pronunciation of his name, I went D'oh!

Gah I blame a long night shift and a general lack of sleep lately for that mistake.

I prefer platinium anyway.

Much respect for linking Eddie Izzard.

[Starver]

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!]

[MaximumZero]

Molybdenum... I literally have no idea why I tried to pronounce it like moldbendenum.

And its always Michigander unless your a youpper, damn Michiganites.

Apparently, it's Moh-LIB-duh-num. Also, yoopers have funny accents, eh.

[Kamin]

Just found this, and it's awesome.

Do You Speak American?

Common Mispronunciations (Apparently "balsamic" has a hard second 'a'... I did NOT know that, but it sounds ugly that way.)

[MaximumZero]

That's...wut?

In every kitchen I've ever worked in, it's always been bawl-SAHM-ic.

[i2amroy]

That's...wut?

In every kitchen I've ever worked in, it's always been bawl-SAHM-ic.

My family (and a good italian one at that!) has always pronounced it the correct way, so bawl-SAM-ik. Lots of people in the U.S. tend to pronounce it with the soft AHM sound, but go to italy and it's SAM instead.

[Tack]

Up until about a year ago I used to pronounce 'canary' as 'cannery'.