OK, isn’t Condoleezza Rice a perfesser at Stanford or something?

Last night, during her speech at the Republican National Convention, Condie offered up the following pronunciations (say these out loud for full effect):

ally:  uh-LIE

allies:  uh-LIES

scourge:  scorge, rhymed with “gorge.”

And, this one killed me – ingenuity:  AHN-zhuh-noo-i-tee (she must be Franch er somethin’)

Others I’ve heard the last few days — all from educated folks:

inundated:  in-NUN-day-ted

debacle:  rhymed with “the hackle”

divisive:  second and third syllable rhymed with “missive.”   This one’s all over the place.  (Look it up.  It’s “di-VIE-sive” — like from “divide,” not “division.”)

experiment:  ex-PEER-i-ment (Twice in the same speech.  It wasn’t inadvertent.  But, that’s OK.  This guy, who is an “evangelical,” pronounced it “EE-vuhn-gel-i-cuhl” [root word must be “even”] and claimed the current administration wanted us to “bow our knees .  .  .”  [rhymes with “how” — that kind of “bow”].)

Sorry if this is harsh.  I just realized — these are probably regionalisms.