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?
Brad Pitt was hired to read one of Cormac Mc Carthy’s books that had a very few Spanish words and names that he was not coached on. It was on cassette, ancient I know, I got so aggravated I threw the whole thing out the window.
If he pronounced Spanish like his character in Inglorious Basterds spoke Italian, I’d buy it for that alone.
Just before reading your comment, I heard it in my head. It’s pretty awesome, isn’t it?
Bon jorno
Grotzie
Gourlaaaaaaami