Surely there is a difference between pronunciation and mangling? Where a word is correctly used but said diferently is surely different to the incorrect use of a word where the meaning has been lost or it's pronunciation is so far out as to suggest that the speaker really does not know how the word should be said (or even means).

For example, I'm sure I heard Bush the Younger say 'subliminable' the other night on TV - that is mangling! In the part of Lincolnshire I lived in extra syllables were often inserted into double vowel sounds - so 'beans' becomes 'be-hans' (5 miles down the road on the 'Marsh' it became 'be-yans'). That I would descibe as an accent and in these days of estuary english something to be treasured not scorned!

All the best

Steve

PS Anyone for some 'forward planning'? Have you ever planned backwards?