My mum politely said something along the lines of “That’s the American word, try using the proper word instead!”

This fucked up my speech patterns royally because I now pronounce words like “dance” and “chance” with a silly sounding “arn” sound.

All because I instead of asking for lollies, I asked for “carndy”.

The story so far: Russian language Unified State Exam needs you for their army---- how do you strike on mobile//// to memorize the 500 words list of correct pronunciations.

I decided to reshape the list into sentences where words are grammatically connected so it would be easier to learn everything by heart.

Today I learned about the word "orthoepy" which means correct pronunciation, given specific context. This, in and of itself, is not particularly interesting. What's interesting about it is that there is no agreed-upon pronunciation for it. According to Wikipedia, "the OED recognizes the variants /ˈɔːθəʊˌiːpi/, /ˈɔːθəʊˌɛpi/, /ˈɔːθəʊɨpi/, /ɔːˈθəʊɨpi/ for British English and /ɔrˈθoʊəpi/ for American English. The tetrasyllabic pronunciation is sometimes indicated with a diaresis, orthoëpy."