Ordinarily, yes, and you are quite correct. But I was recently disabused of that faulty spelling and pronunciation by the grandiloquent Reverend Al Sharpton while he was holding forth on MSNBC regarding the race-baiter’s news find of the decade, the Thugvon Martin case.
He very distinctly called them - repeatedly - “skillets,” so who am I to argue with such an august personage as he?
Ah. In that case, my Politically Incorrect Paleness leaves me no choice but to bow to the wisdom of The Great and Powerful Al.