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 can’t tell if your GIF comment was serious and you think there’s an objective way to pronounce it or not.
Especially when they follow up with a word that I also always thought was /ɛˈʃu/, but I recently learned that, according to Wiktionary, /ɛsˈt͡ʃuː/ is actually a more common pronunciation, with /ɛˈskju/ being another less common variant. Where did they look up the pronunciation?
I think most people pronounce it with a hard G but, technically, “jif” is the correct way to say it.
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to read this.