Cast your mind back to one of your speeches which went horribly wrong. Did you skip an entire paragraph of your address? How about that simple word that you totally massacred when you pronounced it? What did you do about these ‘mistakes’? If you apologized profusely and tried to right the wrongs on the spot, you made a bad move. Why?
Unless you shared your notes with the audience, absolutely nobody will ever know the structure of your speech. If you left out a whole paragraph, who would know what just happened? Nobody.
It's pointless fretting about a mis-pronunciation when you are in the middle of your address. The best time is before the speech and the next best time is after when you are doing a post-mortem of your performance. Most people pay attention at the beginning and the end of a speech. Very few people will notice your mistakes especially if they are tucked away somewhere in the middle of your discourse.
When you stumble verbally and then announce, "Sorry I'll take part again", you only draw unwanted attention to yourself. My policy is "Make the mistakes and just move on." You can always find another opportunity in your speech to pronounce the offending word correctly. You can always create room for the point you missed and nobody will know that you were chopping and changing as you spoke.
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