Malaysian pronunciation..

I came across this interesting piece while i was surfing to the net for my linguistics points. Its like giving a knock on my head actually! Such simple words but we tend to pronounce it in the wrong way!

Here are some common English words and how most Malaysians read them:

• their
  Malaysians generally read it as thee-ya. Yes, even your teachers taught you so! But could you please take the trouble to look into your Oxford or any English dictionary that you have and you'll be amazed to find that the phonetic signs for this word is similar to the wordthere. So there you have it, it's pronounced the same way as the word there, not thee-ya.
• Wednesday
  Surprise, surprise! You never thought that this word would pop up here, did you? Now how do you read this? I'm sure over 90% of Malaysians that you met read it the way the word is spelled ~ wed-nes-day/wen-nes-day. No? It's wenz-day.
• question
  Yet another common word that most locals here got it wrong. Some better ones will read it as ques-shen while others (like a few of my secondary school teachers) will read it as ques-tian (similar to the Chinese character 电). And the correct pronunciation? ques-chen.
• Christian
  Same theory as above: not chris-tian, but chris-chen.
• Protestant
  Not prou-tes (as in testimonial)-tant, but pra-tes (as in greatest)-tant
• Reformation
  Not ri-fo(r)-mei-shen, but re (as in remedy)-fe(r)-mei-shen.
• debt
  Pronounced as det, not debt.
• doubt
  Silent b too, hence daut.
• receipt
  In this case, the p is silent, hence ri-sit.
• karaoke
  Not ka-ra-o-kay, but ca (as in carry)-ri-o-ki.
• procedure
  An overwhelming majority of school teachers and professors (yes, especially those teaching physics/chemistry/biology) got this wrong, not to say Malaysians as a whole. It's not prou-si-dear for goodness sake, but pre (e as in water)-si-jer.
• photography, geography, geometry, democracy, biology, etc
  Malaysians tend to read these words the way they read their counterparts in the Malay language. So no... Not foe-toe-gra-fi, butfe (as in fern)-ta-gre (e as in water)-fi; not geo-gra-fi, but gia-gre-fi; not geo-me (as in member)-tri, but gia-me (as in merge)-tri; notde-mo-kra-si, but di-ma-kre-si; and bla bla bla.

If at all you read this post.. And you are included in this list of Malaysian way of pronouncing those words do change (don't worry count me in)...  :)