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 misread that as GIF pronounced as peanut butter and I was like who thought GIF was pronounced peanut butter.
The Lord himself could come down and say “It’s pronounced JIF” and I’d like him dead in the eye and say “OK, Jod.”
Not my joke, but it’s how I feel.
Is the joke that g can’t be pronounced that way? Like… Giraffe or gyroscope or gypsy or Germany or gel?