My worst example was the word GIF pronounced like the peanut butter instead of properly as in Graphical. It’s worse because Amanda Montell was writing a linguistics book about the history of language and words.
Recent example was “eschew” which is pronounced Eh-shoo but the narrator said “Eskew” and it confused me so much I had to Google it to make sure I hadn’t been saying it wrong my whole life. What exmaples have you found?
Sadly it is pronounced JIF according the creator of the file format (though I have always preferred the hard g tbh). And I’m pretty sure both pronunciations of eschew are valid? Merriem Webster lists the “e-ˈskyü” pronunciation as a rarer variant, and according to a poll I found it’s around 25% of people who pronounce it that way.
Like most words do have regional variants language is fluid so I wouldn’t say there really is a wrong or a right in most of these cases.
And in the case of a lot of people making the same “mistake” for long enough, the secondary popular pronunciation will inevitably end up in the dictionary sooner or later anyway lol