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?
There’s a bit in The Magician’s Land where the main character quotes Genesis in Hebrew. The narrator (Mark Bramhall) just says “tktktktktk” instead of even attempting to pronounce the Hebrew. OK, OK, it’s written in Hebrew letters, but surely it can’t be that hard to find a Hebrew-reader to make a pronunciation guide. It’s not like Bramhall couldn’t have pronounced it, he got Italian and French and Russian and Hungarian pronunciations pretty much perfect over the rest of the trilogy.