Years ago my sister purchased some used books from a library at ten cents a book. Recently I came upon one of her ten-cent treasures, The NBC Handbook of Pronunciation. It defended a good many pronunciations of mine that others don't like, but had it been a quiz I would have got roughly a C+. I'm curious to know if there is anyone on my side on the words I missed, or against me and the Handbook on the ones I got. If you reply please indicate your location; exempli gratia, ( one of the ones I missed) Britain, Canada, USA, Australia. In the book stressed syllables are in CAPS, ay denotes long A
Here are the ones I missed:(apartheid, uh PAHRT hight [I say uh PAHRT hayt]), (aviatrix, ay vi AY trix [I'm way off]), (bonsai, bon sigh [ I say "bone sigh"] ), (caput, KAY put [I say ca PUT]), (Celt, selt [ I use a hard C]),(clandestine, clan DE stin [I accent DES],(despicable,DE spi kuh buhl [I say DES pic ---]),(exempli gratia, --- GRAY shi uh[I use e.g., but I didn't know about the long a], (vacuum 3 syllables [I'm missing a syllable].

I agree with AY in the first occurrence of a in the following: apricot, caveat,grimace, quasi (and the i is also long so that "quasi" and "Magi" rhyme), status.
I agree that i is short in respite and long in short-lived and acclimatize; e is short in bestial and long in pedophile; a is short in vagary and granary.
I agree that ch is silent in schism, but that neither c is silent in arctic.
The c(h) is hard in machination and culinary.
Rigmarole and cater-corner are pronounced as the spelling indicates.
The handbook indicates the following accented syllables:
electoral, i LEK tuh ruhl
hospitable, HAH spi tuh buhl
incognito, in KAHG ni toh
impious, IM pi uhs
frequent(verb) fri KWENT
lamentable LA muhn tuh buhl
A few left overs:
comptroller kuhn TROH ler
covert KUH vert
err er
pulmonary PUHL muh nai ri ( like pulse puhls)