One of my favorite shows to watch on television is Building Alaska.  One of my former flight instructors moved up there to work as a tour pilot transporting tourists to and from the glaciers.  He loved it so much he went back a second year even though most only do it once in order to get their turbine transition and log some hours in an ASTAR.  Well the new season of this show has one of the builders, an educated man, saying the word "helicockter".  I 've rewound the DVR three times.  His lips never touch to form the "P" sound.  He says it six more times in episode two.  How can an architect and engineer not know the word is helicoPter?  It was driving me nuts to the point I was yelling at the television.  I know I'm whacky but he's the second grown man on earth I've heard mispronounce the word helicoPter.  My brother and I were watching Comedy Central stand-up about a dozen years ago and a comedian stated that he lived in the bad portion of Chicago where the gangs shoot down "Heli-clocktas".  He kept saying it and we thought it must have been part of his act.  It wasn't - the comedian after him got up and said "the word is "heli-CoPTER"....that's my only thing to say today.  The world's greatest flying machine deserves the respect of getting her name correct. - Pete @helipadusa