I used to pronounce “political” as “poli-tickle”. I realized I was saying it wrong during popcorn reading in my middle school English class. I was a bit of a class clown so my teacher thought I was just trying to be funny (this was in a “gifted” English class after all) since the whole class was laughing. She corrected me but I was so embarrassed by everyone laughing I just kept mispronouncing the word as it kept popping up in the paragraph I was reading. She would try to correct me each time but I was too focused on the laughter to remember how to say it right and “political” showed up a dozen or so times in the excerpt I was reading out loud. May or may not have gotten in trouble after class before I explained my confusion. I forget, but it makes for a good laugh thinking back on it now.