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?

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    1 year ago

    In The Expanse the narrators spells out HUD every time, which is really annoying.

    Another boom really made me angry, there’s a modern Air-To-Air missile, called the AIM-120 AMRAAM (advanced medium range air to air missile). The narrator spelled it out, which was incredibly annoying.

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      1 year ago

      I didn’t finish the series on audioboo but I thought he changed it from book to book. Like one book he says it and one he doesn’t? Or maybe that was Bibiverse

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      1 year ago

      It the Expanse series, Jefferson Mays also alternates pronouncing ‘gimbles’ as ‘jimbles’ between books… drove me nuts