what do you drink? and/or convenience store

[Gordon, Matthew J.]

MIllie noted:

>PS - Oops, one more thing.  Matt, the other lexical terms/pronunciations
that almost always elicit all sorts of vehemently emotional reactions to
people who say it "the other way" is the "coupon"/"kyupon" distinction.


There are a lot of pronunication variants (e.g., creek, aunt, greasy, root) that elicit strong feelings of correctness and 'coupon' is certainly one of them.
Soda/pop is interesting b/c it's a lexical alternation not a phonological one. Maybe people get so worked up about pronunciation b/c of the standard language ideology that there should be a one and only one correct way of pronouncing a word just like spelling. I don't think people usually believe there should be one and only one correct word for a given concept/thing.
Maybe DInIs has some insight on this?