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?

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    1 year ago

    I’ve had several recently, unfortunately, and it drives me nuts.

    A character’s name (a horse) named Deimos. Pronounced by the narrator Die-mos, not Dee-mos. This was constant and had me yelling at the narrator regularly.

    There was something that was a character’s forte in another book. Pronounced fort, not four-the.

    There was another, but I can’t remember it at the moment.

    On the other hand, I’ve had some narrators pronounce words correctly that I’ve only ever read and I was doing it completely wrong. Bivouac is one that comes to mind.