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?
Kate Atkinson’s Brody books. The narrator pronounces his sisters name Niamh as Nee-am not “Neeve”. Couldn’t believe it! Someone should really have caught that.
Irish names are routinely mispronounced in audiobooks if they have non-Irish narrators, but I would have thought the narrators could check with the author? I listened to one that absolutely murdered the name of the town Dun Laoghaire