Much of this destruction of language comes from the uneducated schlubs from "J"-school who made their way to the TV screen. I remember back in the 90's when Bill Clinton brought sexual harassment into everyone's living rooms. The traditional pronunciation was - /həˈrasm(ə)nt or, hair-ass-ment. But, one day a doofus on TV thought it would be clever and sophisticated to say "harris-mint" and withing 48 hours every member of the herd was pronouncing it that way.