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I know that the correct pronuciation of some words like nuclear is not up to much debate, no matter how our oh so cultured president mangles it. For a different take on this particular linguistic faux pas, see the essay given on Fresh Air by Geoffrey Nunberg.
While some words, like pecan, is pronounced differently depending on where in the U.S. you were raised.
Even so, I would think that if you were producing and/or starring in a major television series, that you could at least manage to pronounce a given word the same way each time you say it. Especially, when it is featured three times in the same sentence.
Maybe the producers of $40 a Day on Food Network need to coach Rachael Ray on that.
And while I am at it, maybe the wait staff at Middletown Place in Charleston, SC, could manage to pronounce huguenot properly when listing their desserts.