I am aware that [行く]{いく} is sometimes read 「ゆく」 but I do not think it is
_mostly_ read as 「ゆく」except in combinations. 例えば、行く手・行く先・行く春.

Whereas I almost never hear 言う as いう. These are the only two examples I know
of where an alternate reading is as common or more common than the common
reading and where the commonly spoken phrase is adding or changing a sound
rather than omitting a sound.

**NOTE:** I am not talking about changes that _omit_ sounds like in すき・です・ます
but ones that _add sound_. On this same note, I am also not interested in
words where the vowel sound is dropped - like 「の」 becoming 「ん」. I am looking
for cases where a sound is _added_ rather than _omitted_.

Are there any other words where an alternate reading is more common than the
dictionary-given reading of the word, especially when the word is not part of
a combination word? Or is this only common for the「い」 sound being slurred into
「ゆ」?
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kanji pronunciation
What common words are written one way - but almost always pronounced a different way? (eg. 言う is generally spoken as 「ゆう」)