How is it that in the USA words are so frequently mispronounced; not only that but become mainstream?

At first I was going to tell you that Americans (which I am) butcher the language and stupidity, unfortunately, is mainstream.

However, when I read your whole question I do have a different answer.

American is a big country. Different area's have different speech patterns and accents. For instance, in Boston they say "CA" for "car". People in the south say "ya'all" and talk with a southern drawl. Different parts of the country pronounce words differently. That's just the way it is.

People from different areas of countries will have different dialects. Some people will say "root" and some will say "rowt." Both of which are perfectly fine and included in the pronunciation keys of dictionaries.

How I saw certain words being raise in Northern California differs from relatives raised in Texas, which also differs from relatives in the Mid West as well as friends on the East Coast and South. So to say that all of the USA mispronounces words is incorrect.

Given that I can still most certainly understand what my friends and relatives are saying, I'm not about to be arrogant enough to tell them they are wrong. Different, my dear, is not wrong.

The difference is pronunciations is not something that's just happened in the last 10 years. It's rooted in the community from when that community began establishing itself.

Yes i heard it in Monaco AMONGST ROYALTY

its Finale was it La Belle whom sang the drift of Sand

50 years past and i heard it in other languages too

What route did it take for you to rowel yourself on root

WHEN MOST LANGUAGES ARE spelled back wards

And UR'S IS in the dictionary of WHO ?

you might own that COVER but you do not own its language

I EAT THEM UP eatable !!

America is a BIG country with states of unity

Where upon all language reunite

and consider this dialect anyone in any country has that right

and ..we have the choice to use as many as on any block

in any city town or established COR NOR WE ENTER

God-bless US,! united !!

Many Americans do not take the language seriously, because they wrongly judge that this would put them on the level of stereotypical European snobbery. Also there are many different ethnic backgrounds in this country who have used one accent or another for so many generations that in certain regions, one word not only changes in pronunciation, but also in usage and definition.

I've realized this. The whole "hipster" thing is cool now. But I also think that maybe people are actually coming to their senses. But, even though they are a lot of people who hate the mainstream thing, there are A LOT more who prefer the mainstream style. Also, there are TRUE hipsters who are truly different but hipsters who like it because it's cool. I'm pretty different. I'm like a hipster of hipsters. I truly don't fit in. But some people who fake it are ruining it.

Someone I know was using "behooves" to mean confused. and would constantly say...it behooves me...I finally enlightened the person.

People can spell, or they can't; they know definitions or they don't. In English, some words have multiple spellings. It is common in business and home life to use the shortest/fewest words to say something. Society laughs about "college words". Society is ignorant in regard to the pronunciation of foreign words we are incorporating into English and it can't be fixed unless society yearns for education.

Still, most of the people I know aren't English-perfect and I don't hold it against them. They are there for me in a clinch and that's what matters. I don't go around correcting them unless they ask me to.

I don't see the big deal. If you hear the word pronounced as "rowt" or "root" you understand the word being spoken is "route." All that matters is that the pronunciation is comprehensible.

I don't know. I am American and I can't stand it. Many American towns are mispronunciations of European cities. Don't the English have different dialects, like Cockney? I can't understand Ozzy Ozborn most of the time.

Yes... there have been many deviations in the American language. Same thing with the word hearth. Some say [Har'th] some say [Hur'th].

yea, well english is my 2nd language, and im here in the US as student...it confuse me more..as what I learned is not whats in real life...and i dont know why people get angry if someone pronounce a word in the british way, isnt better than nothing? or at least we do the effort to communicate!! i was in the airport once and i had to give them my reservation number, it had letter Z, i said ZED...the person got mad at me and said WE ARE IN AMERICA WE DONT SAY ZED WE SAY ZEEEEE..