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?
Stephen Fry in the Harry Potter audiobooks pronounces ‘obliviate’ as ‘ob-liv-ee-ah-tay’. Maybe that is the correct way, but it just sounds wrong to me.
He also pronounced Holyhead (the home of the Holyhead Harpies quidditch team) wrong - he pronounced it Holey-head, but the actual town is pronounced Holly-head
Was looking for this comment! Really threw me that he didn’t know how to pronounce it!!