Did they ask you to pronounce the word "vegetable" or the word "comfortable"?
Once when I was in high school several people in one of my classes told me that the way that I pronounced those words was strange, because everyone else pronounced them as "vetch-tah-bl" and "com-fter-bl", but I pronounce them as "veg-eh-tah-bl" and "com-frr-tah-bl".
I've always tried to pronounce all of the letters in words. I know that my pronunciation is different than other people's pronunciation, but it feels really strange not to pronounce all of the letters. Words like "Wednesday" and "colonel" annoy me because they can't be pronounced as they're spelled.