Mis-pronounciations.

[Huzo]

Totally bogus explanation, they all said it wrong...

Say the word New by itself
Say the word Clear by itself

Put the two together - it doesn't sound like Nu Ku Lar unless you are also not pronouncing Clear properly.

Just because someone has done it that way for years wrong doesn't make it correct, and there's nothing pedantic about it.  Even experts make mistakes in their own field...

It's the same issue with ReLAtor intead of Realtor (Say Real, Say Tor...put them together), why continue to make the same error over and over, and why the resistance to say it correctly.  There are a lot of people who don't use present tense or past tense properly either and have done so for generations, and it's common, but it doesn't make it noble or right....that's a justification for not wanting to be correct.

You don't have to be a nuclear engineer to pronounce it correctly...if that's what you mean by clueless!  That's the funniest explanation I've heard in a while for saying it wrong!

Now...if you told me that someone didn't pronounce double braaat wit da works, once hey, in proper Skansin, I'd agree with you!!  Raising a Leinenkugel for all the Nu Ku Lar Engineers!!

That'd be "wrongly" BTW...
Oh, an you Americans, how can you justify "irregardless", (it even got a mention on The Simpsons)
As in..
"I've just washed the bike and it's starting to rain again, but I'm going to ride it irregardless..."

[PJPR01]

Good catch Huzo...I stand corrected on wrong...should have been wrongly...at least it wasn't mispronounced, just grammatically incorrect.  :)

Here's a little entertaining reading material for you on irregardless, which I agree doesn't seem to be correct, I don't use it, however, there are quite a few persuasive arguments in its favor:

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS757US757&ei=ShQHWtu_K6TbjwSJ4LT4DA&q=irregardless+is+not+a+word&oq=irregard&gs_l=psy-ab.3.2.0l6j0i131k1j0l3.20483.21954.0.23909.8.8.0.0.0.0.112.740.6j2.8.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.8.736...46j35i39k1j0i67k1j0i20i264k1j0i46k1j0i10k1.0.IKlP3B2nAMI

P.D.  And that would be AND you Americans, rather than An... 

[Huzo]

Good catch Huzo...I stand corrected on wrong...should have been wrongly...at least it wasn't mispronounced, just grammatically incorrect.  :)

Here's a little entertaining reading material for you on irregardless, which I agree doesn't seem to be correct, I don't use it, however, there are quite a few persuasive arguments in its favor:

https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS757US757&ei=ShQHWtu_K6TbjwSJ4LT4DA&q=irregardless+is+not+a+word&oq=irregard&gs_l=psy-ab.3.2.0l6j0i131k1j0l3.20483.21954.0.23909.8.8.0.0.0.0.112.740.6j2.8.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.8.736...46j35i39k1j0i67k1j0i20i264k1j0i46k1j0i10k1.0.IKlP3B2nAMI

P.D.  And that would be AND you Americans, rather than An... 

Damn, bugger, drat, poop !!!!
You got me mate. (Spotted the deliberate mistake, YOU PASSED !!!)
I love it when a smarty pants cops it in the guts... (especially when it's me)
Oh,while we're on the topic of my major mistakes, it's also incorrect to commence a sentence with the word "And"...I didn't use it in your example, but I slid it in a couple of times.. (so to speak).
Gone again..

[Huzo]

So "irregardless" would be showing no regard for a regardlessness.
Example: Un careless ness, would be NOT careless, OR "careful"..
Further breakdown of that would be " to have regard for"...
The double negative combining to cancel out.
Thus leaving "to show or HAVE regard for."

[PJPR01]

You got it!   

As a friend of mine once said, half jokingly:

Ain't nobody, nowhere, no how, gonna tell me nuttin! 

Time to ride!!  Weather is beautiful, things to do in the garage and then for a spin!

[Huzo]

Yeah, well said...
Take care, thanks for the jousting session 'twas fun.
(Except for the bit where you knocked me off my horse !!!)

[Triple Jim]

I used to let it bother me when I heard someone use a word that should have had the "ly" ending, but instead had the adjective form.  Then I started watching the little videos on the Marriam-Webster site.  The history of the language is often not taught in school, just the "rules". 

Flat Adverbs:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/video/drive-safe-in-praise-of-flat-adverbs

[kenvil1]

Escape goat.

Card shark.

Yuge. (Having been raised in a french-speaking household, that's how I mispronounce the word huge, according to my english-speaking friends who never ever fail to point it out!)

[Huzo]

I hate the new one...
"I went to the fair, it was very fun"
I kid you not, it was on the ABC here in Australia, (our national broadcaster)

[PJPR01]

Yeah, well said...
Take care, thanks for the jousting session 'twas fun.
(Except for the bit where you knocked me off my horse !!!)

    Enjoyed that as well!  Next time we'll make it a game of chess! 

[PJPR01]

Escape goat.

Winner, I'll have to remember this one.  C'est trop drole!

[Triple Jim]

Winner, I'll have to remember this one.  C'est trop drole!

My father-in-law was somewhat hard of hearing, and used to say "scrapegoat", among other unique pronunciations of words.

[Huzo]

  Enjoyed that as well!  Next time we'll make it a game of chess!

Nah.
If it's going to involve pawn, if won't be spelled that way !
I pride myself on being as sick as the next bloke...

[G12W650]

Most Aussies here over a certain age will remember old Dorrie Evans from No.96 who was always letting her husband Herb (or maybe erb for the US readers) know she was  ardament about something or other.
Lately my favourite is Wayne Carini (Chasing Classic Cars) who finds simular cars to ones he has seen or owned.
And a mate of mine always wanted to paint a Muriel.

Mick.

[Huzo]

Most Aussies here over a certain age will remember old Dorrie Evans from No.96 who was always letting her husband Herb (or maybe erb for the US readers) know she was  ardament about something or other.
Lately my favourite is Wayne Carini (Chasing Classic Cars) who finds simular cars to ones he has seen or owned.
And a mate of mine always wanted to paint a Muriel.

Mick.

First things first, it's actually "similar" cars, but I digress.
We weren't allowed to watch Number 96 I was too young.
Mum and Dad used to put that televisual feast to good use, up 'till then I was an only child !

[G12W650]

Mate, that's what I meant, he says simular, NOT similar

[Huzo]

Mate, that's what I meant, he says simular, NOT similar

Oh dear...
Yes well that's just not good enough. When I see ads for boxed sets of Crawford productions, I can't believe how bad that crap really was.
Cringeworthy...

[jumpmaster]

Just to add fuel to the fire - my ex-wife, who was on her way to getting a MA in Linguistics at Georgetown U. (in DC) back in the 70s when it was regarded as a leader in the field, told me that she was taught there that a native speaker cannot make a "mistake" in his/her native language.  According to them, it would just be a "non-standard usage."  I never thought to ask her if a non-native speaker would be making a "mistake" if they demonstrated the same usage, though....