My old store manager would use the word "preface" to mean that he agreed with something. He didn't say it in a weird way, I think he just didn't know what it meant.
If you said something he liked he'd say "I'd like to preface that statement" and no one ever corrected him
Knew a guy that thought using "vis à vis" whenever he could made him sound smarter, but he said it with a weird stress on the first syllable and rushed it all together, so everyone referred to him as "Visa-vee" in passing behind his back
Every white boomer in America says "chipolte" instead of chipotle and it annoys the shit out of me. Like they don't even use the Americanized version of the word they just straight up say it wrong
At he beginning of the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou, the trio of main characters find themselves on a railroad handcar being operated by a blind seer. As he's giving them a prophecy, he says the word obstacles like "ob-stack-els". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukq_XJmM-k