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 don’t mind when people mispronounce words generally, it just means you read a lot, that’s cool. But people who say “foilage” instead of “foliage” just drive me right around the bend, I can’t help it. I don’t remember which book it was, because it was during a bit of an audiobook binge, but the main character sure did move quietly through the thick foilage. All that aluminum wrap, you’d think it would crinkle.
In several books I’ve read, the narrator pronounces “familiar” like “fermiliar” and it drives me nuts
I just heard this on Glass Sword, the sequel to Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard. I was momentarily confused.
I don’t understand how a professional voice actor could say that, or that no one in the studio recording it or editing it would pick up on it.
I cannot say some words right even though I know how they should be spoken because I read them for far too long beforehand. Like inventory.
Wait that one’s interesting, how do you say it?
I usually remember once I find out how a word is pronounced, I was pretty shocked by “piton”, I said that wrong for over 20 years before I finally heard it said correctly.
There’s a bit in the Simpsons where Marge says foilage and Lisa corrects her and says foliage (or maybe Lisa says foliage and someone “corrects” her and says foilage? I can’t remember and it’s not really important).
All of that to say, that my husband and I sometimes “correct” eachother’s correct pronunciation with the wrong one, and foliage/foilage is a favorite of ours, lol.