Mispronounced words in conversation

I say the word as I know it, usually correctly. On occasion I can be dead wrong. I said the word debacle wrong for a lot of my life.

But, doesn't it seem/feel rude to you to correct the speech of another?

No, it doesn't, at least in my long time experience. I'm an old woman basically from California, but also living in several places elsewhere in the US.

People snap at each other about language, and sometimes they are right, and sometimes it's because usage varies.

I remember arguments re how to say Caesar Chavez.........

On your opening post

just say "I would call it -----"

I've even heard mispronounciations on radio by hosts that one might conclude that the radio host is undereducated and had family that learned "street English" only. So be it. We are not British, meaning English is not our language really. And, the most educated English I've heard from Southerners. They might have identified with England better for a longer time, while the north let a lot of non-English speaking foreigners settle there? Lastly, some ethnic groups never really took a pride in speaking a correct English. It was thought to be too intellectual, in a negative way, perhaps.

Anyway, I would not expose the error, and try hard not to use the word in question. What's the purpose of making someone feel less knowledgeable?

Thank you for your reply. You have understood the crux of my problem. I do not enjoy and feel it is unkind to make the other person feel badly that they mispronounced the word.