Difficult words

OK, so over the last few days, I have heard a pretty significant number of reporters (big time reporters - we'll keep names out of this) pronouncing the word "inauguration" in a way that struck me as odd - in-og-ER-a-shun, without any "ye" or "yu" (depending on your spelling preference) sound.

So I pulled out the Websters, and the dictionary indicates, apparently, that either one is an option.

But, does anyone outside the media actually pronounce it without the "y" sound (in-aw-gye-ray-shun)? It strikes me as pretty pretentious. Maybe I'm wrong, and perhaps it is a regional pronounciation that I am not used to. Or perhaps it's a rebellion from eight years of hearing "nuke-yuh-lar" - time to banish the cowboy "yuh" from our speech.

Yet the web seems devoid of any discussion of that, aside from some snark about Arnold Schwarzenegger's pronounciation of the word.

UPDATE: I just found one other discussion of it on a blog earlier this month, although not by someone who I'd typically cross-reference.