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?
I think this thread should be a good illustration that before we assume someone else is mispronouncing a word, we should always check to see if either we are the ones mispronouncing it or if there are multiple pronunciations.
When I started listening to The Blade Itself (First Law series), the narrator was saying grim-ACE. I had always said and heard GRIM-iss. Was driving me crazy. Looked it up. Turns out that is a correct, though rarer, alternate pronunciation! So yeah, I learned to be less quick to judge.