Shall we discuss?

Perhapst no-one who's reading this is interested (I get, what, one comment every week or two? whereas Val gets tons), but I don't care. My question is this:
Why do people pronounce words in such unorthrodox ways as to insinuate that they are spelled differently, so when a FOP (fresh off the plane) like I am confused as to how to spell it?
PERHAPST somebody would Answer that!
*bristle* *grumble*

On a lighter note, I taught little 5 year olds this song:
Mein Hut der hat drei Ecken,
drei Ecken hat mein Hut.
Und Hätt er nicht drei Ecken,
dann is er nicht mein Hut.

Yay. And they liked it. And were cute. Aw. I love kids. Something must be wrong...