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?
We listened to an audiobook that took place in northern Minnesota. A character was eating onion pasties.
Pasty, the food, is pronounced past-ee. Pasty, the nipple covering is pronounced, paste-ee.
The narrator kept calling it an onion paste-ee, which made us howl. “Onion pasties would make the stripper cry!”
Just listened to an audiobook, Ben Aaronovitch’s “Winter Gifts.” The very British narrator was trying to do an American accent, and kept pronouncing “parka,” as “parker.” It was very distracting.
Maybe he was supposed to be from Rhode Island? We randomly add rs and also drop them so there’s ‘parker’ and ‘spatular’ but we also pronounce car as ‘kah’.
What does it being set in Northern Minnesota have to do with it lol
Pasties are a delicacy of the region, along with Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.